Byline: How Local Journalists Can Improve the Global News Industry and Change the World Hardcover – 19 September 2023 by Cristi Hegranes

It’s time for journalism to make a change. For too long, the industry has been bleeding revenue and audience because it relies on outdated assumptions about its talent, its readers, and the subjects of its stories. These practices have so eroded trust that the industry has found itself in crisis. According to the founder and CEO of Global Press, Cristi Hegranes, the way forward is allowing for a new kind of storyteller. Hegranes’s organization has developed a model of international journalism that is more accurate, more honest, and more equitable. It is built on the idea that local journalists—individuals from the communities at the heart of the story— should be reporting the news. As Hegranes compellingly details, simply by changing the bylines, journalism can discard harmful stereotypes about what stories are “newsworthy,” whose opinion matters, and how to keep journalists safe, all while answering the concerns of their audiences. Along the way, Hegranes introduces new findings from new studies that prove audiences are ready for a change, shares interviews with some of the most prominent voices in modern journalism, and provides captivating examples from some of the best local reporting on the planet. It all adds up to the same conclusion: if we want to save journalism, we need local journalists to inspire trust and speak to the global concerns of twenty-first-century news consumers.

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