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 don’t think it’s news to anyone (pun intended) that what we’re doing at LINK has to be paid for somehow. Since we don’t have a paywall, we have to do that […]
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Inside LINK: Election coverage doesn’t stop on election night
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. Our first reporting hire, when we formed LINK, was Mark Payne, our government and politics reporter. This wasn’t an accident. We knew that the single largest piece missing from NKY Metro news […]
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Inside LINK: We’re still hiring
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. Last week, I shared that LINK is growing, and hiring three permanent, full-time positions. I also told you to stay tuned for more announcements, and because I hate to keep people waiting, […]
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Inside LINK: We’re adding to the team
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 love the team we’ve assembled at LINK. In our quarterly strategic planning session last month, we were marveling at how well everyone in our organization exemplifies our values, gets the work […]
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Inside LINK: No paywalls here
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. Last week in this space, I dove into how we pay for our reporting – the unique blend of advertising sales, sponsorships and donations to the NKY Community Journalism Fund that help […]
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Inside LINK: How do we pay for all this?
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. About once a week, I get an email from one of our readers, suggesting a new coverage area they’d like to see – restaurant reviews, education, arts and entertainment listings, health sciences, […]
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Inside LINK: What’s the best way to reach us?
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 we started LINK, we knew that our coverage of the NKY Metro couldn’t be a one-way conversation. We needed to be able to hear from the community, and we understood that […]
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Inside LINK: Why didn’t I get my LINK Reader?
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’ve written before in this space about why we chose to create a print paper, and how important the experience of everyone in the NKY Metro receiving the same news, at the […]
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Inside LINK: What happens when we mess up?
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 the news, getting things right is the most important part of our job. From big concepts to tiny details, it is critical that we fact-check, spell-check, and cross-check everything we publish. […]
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Inside LINK: The delicate balance of reporting breaking news
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. Monday night, I received a call from one of my staff. They were positioned outside the police cordon at a developing situation in Fort Thomas, and needed to talk through how we […]
