Canadian Publishing Industry News
13 October 2026,     MICHIGAN
New e-publication helps local newsrooms
 
 The Economic Opportunity Lab has released a free new “playbook” to help local newsrooms report on the policies and places that shape economic mobility in their communities. The Lab is a partnership between the Local Media Association, Comcast NBCUniversal, and the Harvard-based research group Opportunity Insights, which brought together 48 local newsrooms and 10 NBC Telemundo stations across five regions to report on how place and policy are shaping access to opportunities, with the ultimate goal of driving economic mobility.
The resulting playbook, available as a free download at https://playbook.economicopportunitylab.com/eol, walks newsrooms and organizations through the full process. This includes identifying the problems to solve, selecting a market, building a production workflow and support systems, immersing reporters in research and data training, and hosting public listening sessions to build trust with the communities being covered. A built-in checklist also helps news organizations assess their own readiness to take on similar projects.
 
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