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Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran is a journalist, editor, trainer, entrepreneur, strategist, and media consultant based in Boulder, Colorado. In addition to writing articles and doing educational programming for [email protected], she also covers mobile technology for CNN.com and Entrepreneur.com, and was a cofounder of the hyperlocal news site OaklandLocal.com. In 2006 she won a Knight News Challenge awarded for the Boulder Carbon Tax Tracker project. Her blog is Contentious.com. Twitter: @agahran

Amy Gahran's Blogs and Trainings

Readability tools break digital advertising. How to adapt?

People generally dislike ads, and will avoid them if possible. This is a hard truth for the news business, especially Read More

Lawsuit to watch: Who owns journalists’ social media accounts?

In the past couple of years, many news organizations have introduced social media policies covering both branded accounts and the Read More

Where do people get local business info? Pew report, plus 10 ideas for publishers

The holiday shopping season is generally a revenue-booster for ad-supported news venues—but new Pew research indicates that more people are Read More