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In 2009, American writer Clay Shirky predicted that “every town of 500,000 people or less in this country was likely to sink into casual, endemic, civic corruption,” fostered by the decline of local newspapers. Throughout the past decade, the collapse of some newspapers has created openings for smaller-scale innovators, such as online think tanks and blogs. These news outlets, however, have dramatically different audiences and frameworks than yesterday’s media giants. Portland entrepreneur and journalist Michael Andersen will facilitate a conversation that explores the forces behind, and the implications of, this shift from mass to niche media.
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Program available through October 2013
Michael Andersen is a Portland-based entrepreneurial journalist. He's the publisher of Portland Afoot, a nonprofit newsmagazine and website about low-car life in Portland, and his work has also appeared in the Oregonian, Crosscut, the Columbia Journalism Review, and elsewhere. He studied at Grinnell College and Northwestern and is a pretty big fan of bread. He reads, writes, and argues regularly about local journalism and its white-water future.
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