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You think you have a local community\u2013local, hyperlocal, or regional\u2013that\u2019s ready to support its own digital news brand. You see examples of other news startups sustaining themselves through ad sales, memberships, events, donations, crowdsourcing or philanthropies. But the first decisions a news entrepreneur needs to make are often the most important AND the ones they have the least experience in making. For instance, will you get set up as a for-profit? Non-profit? C corp? B corp? Our presenters will candidly address the challenges, pitfalls and rewards of building your own local news brand.<\/p>\n

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  • News entrepreneurs or anyone who\u2019s considered launching your own local or hyperlocal digital-first outlet \u2014 even fleetingly as a \u201csome day I should do this\u201d<\/li>
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  • Anyone working at a local or hyperlocal outlet that wants a refresh on the business basics or looking for some fresh inspiration<\/li>
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  • Those who run an independent local or hyperlocal organization connected to a legacy parent organization that needs to operate more or less self-sufficiently<\/li><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":1507217400,"end_time":1507221000,"moderators":[["John Ness"]],"hashtag":["ONA17localbiz"],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":["2674765"],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[""],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"","last_name":"","title":"","organization":"","website":"","twitter":"","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":""},"tags":[],"event":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat Kind of Local News Business Do You Want to Build? - ONA17<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/sessions\/localnewsbusiness\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Kind of Local News Business Do You Want to Build? - ONA17\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You think you have a local community–local, hyperlocal, or regional–that\u2019s ready to support its own digital news brand. You see examples of other news startups sustaining themselves through ad sales, memberships, events, donations, crowdsourcing or philanthropies. But the first decisions a news entrepreneur needs to make are often the most important AND the ones they…  Read More\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/sessions\/localnewsbusiness\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ONA17\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/onlinenewsassociation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-09-11T05:48:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/11\/facebook-logo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"627\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@nekolaweb\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@onaconf\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" value=\"Written by\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" value=\"Adam Nekola\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" value=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" value=\"1 minute\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/\",\"name\":\"ONA17\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/sessions\/localnewsbusiness\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/sessions\/localnewsbusiness\/\",\"name\":\"What Kind of Local News Business Do You Want to Build? - ONA17\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-06-12T18:48:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-09-11T05:48:50+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/sessions\/localnewsbusiness\/\"]}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ona_session"}],"https:\/\/api.journalists.org\/speaker":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1334"},{"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1342"},{"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1527"}],"https:\/\/api.journalists.org\/moderator":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona17.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}