Lansing Online News: It's all about the relationships

by Bonnie Bucqueroux

Our first Lost Lansing post recounted when Tillie the black bear escaped from this park

The biggest challenge in maintaining any citizen journalism enterprise is generating great stories to publish, especially when you have no money to pay contributors. And if there is one thing we have learned through our experiment called Lansing [...]

New models: Collaboration, not competition, at the local level

If these two young online editors are the future face of journalism, collaboration, not competition, could become the model for local [...]

SELLING OURSELVES: An alternative to the advertiser/subscriber business model for local news

Lansing Online News will test a new economic model for local news based on consulting and education, not advertising and subscriber [...]