Lara Salahi

CCN Faculty Champion

Endicott College - Beverly, MA

Affiliated Department(s)

Center for Community News

BIO

Endicott College - Beverly, MA

Program Summary: Restructuring the current news-academic partnership to operate as a news service that serves multiple cities and towns and partners --both startups and what is left of larger companies like Gannett on the north shore.

Lara Salahi is an award-winning journalist, author, and associate professor of journalism at Endicott College. Lara has worked in every medium, from film and  local news, network and cable television, international print, and documentary film, and her work has been published in and broadcast on numerous news outlets worldwide. She and her research collaborator founded the term "news-academic partnerships," now used industry-wide. She studies such partnerships as sustainable business models for local news and as a hydration source for news deserts.

Bio

Endicott College - Beverly, MA

Program Summary: Restructuring the current news-academic partnership to operate as a news service that serves multiple cities and towns and partners --both startups and what is left of larger companies like Gannett on the north shore.

Lara Salahi is an award-winning journalist, author, and associate professor of journalism at Endicott College. Lara has worked in every medium, from film and  local news, network and cable television, international print, and documentary film, and her work has been published in and broadcast on numerous news outlets worldwide. She and her research collaborator founded the term "news-academic partnerships," now used industry-wide. She studies such partnerships as sustainable business models for local news and as a hydration source for news deserts.