Summary: On today's episode we spoke with former News Tribune reporter Debbie Cafazzo and Matt Martinez, director of content for KNKX, about what it might look like if a local group of people banded together to buy our beloved (but suffering) hometown paper. We also discussed another option: starting a nonprofit, online-only news outlet that would be laser-focused on Pierce County news.<br> <br> <br> <br> Martinez helped lead KNKX (formerly KPLU) as it raised $7 million to buy its independence from Pacific Lutheran University. Before taking a buyout in 2017, Cafazzo spent 24 years at the TNT.<br> <br> <br> <br> For more background (and fun), I suggest reading the Credit Risk Monitor report on The McClatchy Company's financial outlook, linked below. It paints a quick but illuminating picture of what's going on with the TNT's parent company and why there's so much concern about continued cuts to our local newsroom.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Producer: Doug Mackey<br> <br> <br> <br> Links: <br> <br> <br> <br> Credit Risk Monitor: McClatchy continues to struggle in the newspaper industry<br> <br> <br> <br> The Seattle Times: KPLU officially begins broadcasting as KNKX<br> <br> <br> <br> The News Tribune: Publisher David Zeeck leaving The News Tribune after 24 years as publisher and executive editor<br> <br> <br> <br> The Seattle Times: Tacoma News Tribune to lay off dozens of printing employees<br> <br> <br> <br> Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy: Playbook for Launching a Local, Nonprofit News Outlet<br> <br> <br> <br> Nonprofit Quarterly: Where Local Media Falters, Community-Based Nonprofit Models Step In<br> <br> <br> <br> Politico: This is How a Newspaper Dies <br> <br> <br> <br> Poynter: As Wall Street sours on McClatchy, a longtime lender is now also buying up its stock<br> <br> <br> <br> KNKX<br> <br> <br> <br> Channel 253<br> <br> <br> <br> Sponsor<br> <br> <br> <br> Citizen Tacoma is proudly sponsored by Pacific Lutheran University and Alaska Airlines
