John Adams

It's just that the business model that had supported it for so long had kind of failed in our current information environment.

And so what this is all about is saying like, look,

People are reinventing the business model.

There are successful local news organizations all over the country, for-profit, nonprofit, independents, creators, people who are committed to finding out the facts about what's going on in their community and sharing it with as broad of an audience of local folks as they can.

And they're...

This campaign, Local News Day, is really about highlighting, uplifting, celebrating and connecting the public with those sources of local news that they may not even know exist.

You know, I think I think you're really onto something there.

And I could take that a lot further, actually, because, you know, I don't know if you know this, Chuck, but I was also for a period of time the correspondent for the Rocky Mountain Brewing News.

So, you know, I did not know that.

That was not a that was not a feeder question.

You know, it's not on my resume.

I should put it on there.

But, you know, it's really that's a great metaphor, because, you know, what

Local breweries are, I'll take Montana, for example, which I know well, they're public houses.

It's not just that people go there for the unique flavor, right?

They also go there for community.

They go there for connection.

And I think that's one of those things that local news really has the power to do, which is connect people.

Like, you can have disagreements and whatnot, but you're disagreeing at least around the same set of facts about what you read in your local paper or heard on your local newscast or saw on your local, you know, your local evening newscast.

And so, you know, and like those local beers, you know, I think what we have found that has been so successful in, you know, particularly what I've experienced mostly in the last 10 years in the nonprofit news space is,