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. Oh, social media comments sections. We know them, we love them, and sometimes, we can’t believe what people say in them. Being able to post our work on social media broadens our […]
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Inside LINK: Our policy on Letters to the Editor and Op-Eds
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. A few times a month, I get an email or a direct message from someone who wants to know how to get a letter to the editor or an opinion piece published […]
Inside LINK: We want your opinion
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. By now, every one of you who lives in the NKY Metro should have received the May/June edition of the LINK Reader. (If you haven’t received your copy, PLEASE let me know.) […]
Inside LINK: The hard work of covering elections
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. It has been a busy week in the LINK nky offices. Tuesday night was Kentucky’s primary election, and we put together the most comprehensive election coverage NKY has seen in over a […]
Inside LINK: All things election (except endorsements)
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. One of the main reasons I was so excited to lead LINK nky, and to be a part of the news again, was to cover NKY’s elections. I’ve lived in NKY for […]
Inside LINK: Why bother with a print paper?
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. Plenty of people told me when we were starting LINK that print is dead. Printing a newspaper, they said, would be a total resource drain, and would provide absolutely no return on […]
Inside LINK: Looking back on our first six months
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. It is hard for me to believe this, but it has been six months since we launched LINK nky. On Oct. 27 of last year, we joined the OneNKY Alliance for their […]
Inside LINK: Why not cover Cincinnati, too?
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. After my first column, I received a few comments from folks, asking questions and sending suggestions. (LOVE this, by the way—keep engaging!) One that I received brought up an interesting point — […]
Inside LINK: Newsrooms are like the ER, just less bloody
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. Back in 2015, my mother had a minor stroke. She showed up at my office, face drooping, slurring her words, and generally scaring me to death. I rushed her to St. […]
Inside LINK: A new, weekly column from LINK’s CEO
A few weeks ago, one of LINK’s Managing Board members looked me in the eye and said, “You know, the success or failure of LINK is 100 percent your responsibility.” Talk about a reality check. The part of me that values collaboration, teamwork, and a flat(ish) hierarchy wanted desperately to protest – to say, no, […]

