Inside LINK is a regular column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. Last year, when we launched our weekly print newspaper, the LINK Reader, we decided to include a section many former Kentucky Post readers loved – the Town Crier. Managing Editor Meghan Goth […]
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Inside LINK: Bringing back NKY’s paper of record
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. I know I’ve told this story before, but it bears repeating. I grew up in a very small town in Ohio, where the weekly newspaper, the Free Press Standard, was part of […]
Inside LINK: How we handle our personal social media accounts
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. Social media has always been tricky for journalists. (Frankly, social media is tricky for everyone.) Unless you choose to have two accounts, which is a lot of work to keep up with, […]
Inside LINK: Onboarding our new Chief Content Officer…you
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. Welcome to LINK! Last week, I offered you the position of Chief Content Officer, and since you came back to read the column again this week, I can only assume that you […]
Inside LINK: A farewell, and a new Chief Content Officer
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. Earlier this week, our Chief Content Officer, Michael Monks, announced his departure from LINK, and NKY altogether. What came as a surprise to many in the community was not a surprise to […]
Inside LINK: What was a town crier then, and what should it be now?
Inside LINK is a weekly column from CEO Lacy Starling; this week, Managing Editor Meghan Goth is taking over. You can email Lacy at lacy@linknky.com or Meghan at mgoth@linknky.com. If it bleeds it leads. If you’re familiar with this mantra, you’ve either worked in news or are an active consumer of it. This is the […]
Inside LINK: Office Hours
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. Two weeks ago in this space, I wrote about our plans for year two of LINK – our beat re-alignment, some new hires, developing core coverage areas, and how we’re going to […]
Inside LINK: Thank you
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. When I moved to the region nearly 16 years ago, my first job was with United Way of Greater Cincinnati. I spent my first year running United Way campaigns for more than […]
Inside LINK: Starting year two
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. Far be it for me to hurry along 2022 any more — how is it already almost Thanksgiving? — but at LINK, we are already looking forward to 2023. We’ve finished our […]
Inside LINK: We’re asking for money
Inside LINK is a weekly column from our CEO, Lacy Starling. If you have questions you’d like Lacy to answer, email her at lacy@linknky.com. In this column, I’m going to ask you for money. Forgive my bluntness, but my parents always taught me that in matters of money, it’s best to just be straightforward. If you […]

