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We’re excited to announce the finalists for our first LION Publishers Awards. These awards recognize excellence in journalism, business and technology at local independent online news publishers around the country. An independent group of judges reviewed the award applicants in detail over the past month. The winners will be announced at our LION Summit Awards

UPDATE: Google has extended the deadline for registration through Friday, Oct. 11 — so if you’re interested, there’s still time to register. Google is inviting LION Publishers members to its first Google News Initiative local event in Chicago this December. The platform is offering to cover travel for up to two people per organization, for

If you’re planning on joining us in Nashville, you are in for a treat. (And if you haven’t registered yet, you can register below!) We’ve got great trainings on sponsored content best practices, solutions journalism, product management for newsroom leaders, covering the 2020 elections and census and boosting brand recognition in your market. Plus, we’ve got Kevin

We know LION Publishers have done some amazing work over the past year. We want to recognize the best publishers, the best investigative work, the best business ideas – even the best vendors – at our inaugural LION Publishers Awards. But we can’t do that without your applications for the awards. If you haven’t applied

Thinking about submitting an application for one of the first LION Awards? You should get on it, as the deadline is fast approaching on August 1! One award we’d like to highlight is the Solutions Journalism Project of the Year, presented by the Solutions Journalism Network. Why? This award is unique in that it highlights

Thanks to the generous support of the Democracy Fund, LION Publishers will be offering travel stipends from $250 to $500 to help our publisher members or prospective members attend the upcoming LION Summit in Nashville on October 24-25, 2019. These stipends will help cover the cost of air fare, hotel and/or gasoline costs for travel

I am so excited to introduce the next two faces of LION Publishers — our incoming Director of Revenue and Operations, Phayvanh Luekhamhan, and our incoming Director of Programming, Anika Anand. Phayvanh joins us after a 5-year stint at VTDigger, a LION Publishers member, where she oversaw vital financial and administrative duties at VTDigger, supported

Attention LION Publishers!  The below announcement comes from our friends at the Knight Foundation, with details on a webinar they’re hosting on Thursday. Time is ticking to apply for the Google News Initiative’s North America Challenge; more details on the webinar, and the Challenge, below… — Chris Krewson, executive director LION Publishers Greetings from Knight

The annual LION Publishers Summit is starting to take shape, and I’m excited to share with all of you our first confirmed keynote at the conference: Our members will get to hear firsthand from Elizabeth Green, a founder of the American Journalism Project, about how this $42 million effort to save local news will be

It’s a brave new world out there, where a broadcast media station partners with public media and the largest newspaper in the area on a topic of public interest. But that’s been the case for years in Philadelphia, where first The Re-Entry Project and later Resolve Philadelphia forged partnerships among the city’s famously combative media

Local Independent Online News Publishers, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting local journalism entrepreneurs, on Wednesday named Chris Krewson its executive director. Krewson most recently was vice president of strategy for Spirited Media, which until March was the parent company of three independent news sites: Billy Penn, The Incline and Denverite. He was the