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.
There’s little that excites LINK staff more than the prospect of meeting our readers face-to-face. We love hearing what you have to say about our coverage, and listening the stories you would like to see covered in your communities.
Those meetings happen for us all the time, as we’re out and about, attending events or covering stories. But we also want to be intentional about creating space and time for our readers to meet us, leading us to our first live, in-person event: Bourbon & Bylines.
Bourbon & Bylines is your opportunity to meet all our editorial staff and talk to them about their beats, the coverage they’ve been doing in the community, and share story ideas with them.
We’ll also be making a HUGE announcement about the future of news coverage in the NKY Metro, and you won’t want to miss it.
This event also will serve as a fundraiser for the NKY Community Journalism Fund, which is how LINK pays for much of its public-interest journalism – covering government and politics, education, healthcare, housing, and other deeply important issues in the community.
The event is Thursday, Sept. 29 from 4-6 p.m. at Smoke Justis in Covington. (You don’t have to come right at the start or stay the whole time. It’s casual.) Tickets are $20 and get you an etched rocks glass to keep, hors d’oeuvres, and one drink. All proceeds go to the NKY Community Journalism Fund.
Most exciting, you can even try LINK’s new signature drink, the Deadline. It’s our twist on the two things that keep our office going – coffee and bourbon.
We’d love to see you there on the 29th, to talk to our staff and support our important work.
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But before anyone accuses us of restricting access to our reporters to only those who can afford a $20 ticket to an event, let me remind you that anyone can drop in our newsroom at any time and talk to us. We have folks stop by regularly to share story ideas or feedback, and the interactions are always fruitful.
And that’s why this update is so important – we found our new home! Last week, I told you that we were searching for a new office, since cramming 11 people in our tiny office was less than ideal.
Well folks, we found it. Starting mid-September, LINK nky will be calling 31 Innovation Alley in Covington our new home. We’ll be off the ambulance route, but still in the heart of all things NKY, which we love. Our new space is four times the size of the old one, which means no more bunk desks or working in shifts. (Our worker’s comp insurance wouldn’t actually let me do bunk desks, unfortunately.)
It’s a bittersweet move, since 621 Madison was where all this started and it has been a great home for us, but I think everyone is excited to have an office with a refrigerator large enough to hold all our lunches and huddle rooms so we aren’t trying to make phone calls over the din of the news/sales room.
We’ll be sharing photos and updates as the move progresses, but I wanted to be sure everyone knew where to find us, for free.
