Lookout Local Network

Lookout is an emerging network of digital-only, mobile-first, editorially robust, intensely local media outlets offering community-centric news and resources.

Our journalism is completely local, nonpartisan and factual. We believe all communities need robust, trustworthy news sources – covering all the “beats” that the best daily newspapers used to. We carefully hire and fairly compensate experienced, professional staff to earn and win community confidence.

Lookout was founded by Ken Doctor, a veteran journalism and newspaper executive who believes a community must be served by new news sources as purely financial interests have bought up, and decimated, local daily newspapers. 

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LOOKOUT LOCAL IN THE NEWS

We’re proud to have Lookout Local, Lookout Santa Cruz and Lookout Eugene-Springfield recognized nationally. The national and state press has pointed both to our journalistic accomplishments and to our community-centric business model that is proving out how much authentic local news is and can be revived – both in our own growing markets and by increasing the number of peers. Those peers, now largely rounded up by the Knight Growth Challenge and Google News Initiative Catalyst program, join us in believing mission-driven and business-driven local news is reversing the near-complete washing out of the local press due to hedge fund ownership.

• More on Lookout’s own expansion and consulting initiatives here.
• See more on Lookout’s report from the inside:
  • Lookout Santa Cruz
  • Lookout Eugene-Springfield
• Positions open at Lookout
• Our national team here.

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Links to Lookout Founder and CEO Ken Doctor’s work and media appearances:

• https://journalism.uoregon.edu/hall-achievement/ken-doctor
• https://www.niemanlab.org/author/kdoctor/
• https://localmedia.org/ken-doctor/
• https://isoj.org/ken-doctor/
• https://www.kcrw.com/people/ken-doctor
• https://wan-ifra.org/event_speakers/ken-doctor/

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