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Adam Drapcho is a freelance reporter.

Granite Beat: Manchester Ink Link founder and publisher Carol Robidoux on how she centers community

In this episode of The Granite Beat, hosts Adam Drapcho and Julie Hart speak with Manchester Ink Link founder Carol Robidoux, a veteran journalist who left behind the legacy outlets to create her hyperlocal news website to supply residents with local, reliable, and community-driven stories in a central hub. They discuss some of her recent stories, such as the Harmony Montgomery case, the affordable housing crisis and community-centered reporting.

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Julie Hart

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Julie Hirshan Hart is a reporter for the Laconia Daily Sun.

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Granite Beat: Reimagining local news funding leads to a different kind of journalism

As financial pressures push news outlets to take a hard look at their payroll, alternative funding sources have come into play as a way to bolster reporting positions. At The Keene Sentinel, Olivia Belanger holds one of those positions. She leads the paper’s Health Lab, and she said the position doesn’t just add another position, it allows whoever holds that position to do a different kind of work.

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Julie Hart

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Julie Hirshan Hart is a reporter for the Laconia Daily Sun.

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Healthcare workforce shortages at catastrophic levels

“It feels like an existential crisis,” Brendan Williams says. “It is tough sometimes to see how we might get our way out of it. It feels to a lot of our members like an extinction event.”

Manchester’s toughest neighborhood can be the best place to start a business

Editor’s note: This article is another installment of “Invisible Walls,” an ongoing joint project of the Granite State News Collaborative, NH Business Review and Business NH Magazine that describes how exclusionary zoning laws have reinforced areas of persistent poverty, impacting many aspects of community life, including crime, public health, affordable housing and access to economic …

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