Media
Press coverage, interviews, and media appearances featuring Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro and her work on local journalism, news sustainability, and public media.
Learning from the Press Forward Infrastructure Proposals: A Conversation with Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro
An interview with Elizabeth on her forthcoming report analyzing 559 proposals submitted to the Press Forward infrastructure grants process — covering the case for picking winners, letting things die, and why the field needs consolidation of both newsrooms and intermediaries to reach sustainability at scale.
"Some hard and important lessons": One of the most promising local news nonprofits looks back — and ahead
An in-depth examination of the National Trust for Local News as it reaches an inflection point, featuring extensive conversation with Elizabeth as outgoing co-founder and CEO on the organization's growth, key learnings, and the inevitable tradeoffs in building sustainable local journalism at scale.
Strength in Storytelling — One Community at a Time
A profile of Elizabeth's work co-founding the National Trust for Local News, tracing the personal and intellectual origins of her mission to reimagine local press as an investment in democracy — from her grandmother's community newspaper column to leading a nonprofit that now owns more than 65 papers across the country.
Breaking News
An in-depth feature on Elizabeth's novel funding and ownership model for the National Trust for Local News, exploring how the Colorado acquisition offers a replicable path to keeping local newspapers in local hands — and sustained as civic assets for the future.