Local news isn’t dead. We just need to stop killing it.

Jim Brady writes: "As someone who has spent most of the past 20 years working in local digital news – the last two running Billy Penn, a mobile news site in Philadelphia – I say now is the time to refocus on what local can do instead of what it can't, and to build a new ecosystem on that foundation. Now is the time to take advantage of what makes local unique instead of trying to follow the footsteps of a national business model that will never work for local. Now is the time for a local digital news revolution. For revolution to happen, it's going to take a major shift in how local journalists think and operate."

Read more from his column in Columbia Journalism Review.

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