Media analyst Ken Doctor,
who’s been covering the news business for Harvard’s Nieman Lab for more than
ten years, is launching a company called Lookout Local. Doctor initially made
his move public in October 2019.
According to Lookout Local’s website, it’s a public
benefit corporation whose “fundamental mission is to serve its communities with
new and higher standard of news, information, and of community engagement and
interaction.”
Lookout is not aiming to be a supplement or an alternative
to the local daily paper, Nieman Lab reported. Lookout sites aim to be the news
source of record in their communities, said Nieman Lab.
Lookout will launch first in
Doctor recently chatted with Joshua Benton, Nieman Lab
director, about his plans.
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