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Small Press, Big Ideas

by Paul Gewuerz
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  • Building a pipeline of young local reporters

    October 5, 2026 · 39 min

    Katy Temple is the executive director of the Foundation for Local News, a New Jersey nonprofit focused on student journalism. She found her way back to journalism through her community college newspaper. That led to advocacy for New Voices…

  • How a newsroom of one bought its hometown paper

    September 28, 2026 · 55 min

    Amy Bushatz spent 13 years at Military.com before moving to Alaska and launching the Mat-Su Sentinel, a nonprofit, digital first newsroom she runs largely on her own. After hearing at a public meeting that the local paper, The…

  • The scrappy playbook behind premium print

    September 21, 2026 · 41 min

    Everyone keeps declaring print dead. Megan Schertler has built an entire career proving the opposite. As cofounder and managing director of In Real Life Media, she helps publishers and brands put print magazines back at the center of their…

  • Building a local media hold co you can run till the day you die

    September 15, 2026 · 44 min

    Michael Kauffman never planned to build a media company. After a beverage startup that raised 250k and vanished in a single production run, a stint working for the founder of Priceline, and a string of ventures that burned him out, a long…

  • Running six Ohio news sites with AI

    September 7, 2026 · 31 min

    Julie D'Aloiso built a Northeast Ohio local news network almost by accident, and in this episode she traces the winding path that got her there. A former COBOL programmer turned early social media adopter, she launched SpiderCat…

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  • What local news is trying next

    August 31, 2026 · 36 min

    Sophie Culpepper covers local news for Nieman Lab, the Harvard based publication tracking how journalism is evolving in a digital age. She joins the show to map what is actually working in local media right now, from a Provincetown…

  • Funding journalism with the tools that threaten it

    July 20, 2026 · 34 min

    Brian Kennett is the founder of Built Revenue. He argues that local publishers are sitting on the most valuable asset in their market, a trusted audience, and monetizing almost none of what it is worth. In this conversation Brian breaks…

  • How AI rewired a one person newsroom

    July 13, 2026 · 48 min

    Uriah Kiser has spent more than three decades in local media, from interviewing President Clinton as a teenage TV reporter to launching Potomac Local two years before the Virginia newspaper he grew up delivering shut its presses for good…

  • The firewall between business and editorial is becoming a half wall

    July 6, 2026 · 41 min

    Brandon Mercer is the Vice President of Ad Product Integrated Solutions at Hearst, where he builds the programs that sit between editorial and advertising across the company's local newspaper properties. Brandon argues that the old…

  • What Blockbuster and Redbox reveal about local news

    June 29, 2026 · 41 min

    Justin Rushing has spent more than fifteen years on the revenue side of local news. Today he is cofounder of the HBCU Digital Media Collaborative, which partners with historically Black colleges and universities to help students build…

  • Vertical video is where your audience already is

    June 22, 2026 · 34 min

    David Arkin returns to the podcast to talk about the format reshaping local media right now: vertical video. He breaks down why reels are no longer a young person's medium, why dropping a two and a half minute TV segment into the feed…

  • Sixty years of covering Black Atlanta

    June 15, 2026 · 23 min

    Donnell Suggs is editor in chief of the Atlanta Voice, Atlanta's only Black newspaper, which marked its 60th anniversary in May without ever missing an issue. He joins the show to talk about two decades of reporting in Georgia, what it…

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About the show

Small Press, Big Ideas is a podcast about the business of local news and community journalism in the US. Host Paul Gewuerz interviews entrepreneurs and journalists in the field to get their take on what's working, what isn't, and how local publishers can thrive in today's rapidly changing media landscape.