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Building blocks in the emerging local news ecosystem

The Alternative Press grows as franchise model

For a post at Knight Digital Media Center, I caught up with The Alternative Press founder Mike Shapiro to find out how the network has doubled in size in the past year:

Can local news scale? The Alternative Press tests a franchise model in New Jersey

This week, Shapiro announced a further expansion into Pennsylvania with a North Penn site that will be edited by a former Patchie.