How can we reach beyond the local news choir? Spotlight PA’s founding editor has ideas

How can we reach beyond the local news choir? Spotlight PA’s founding editor has ideas

As LinkedIn post ledes go, Spotlight PA CEO and editor Christopher Baxter’s on a post last week was intriguing: “I recently had lunch with a staunch, pro-Trump Republican and highly successful business leader, and his views on local news changed my own.” In the post, Baxter, the founding editor of the six-year-old nonprofit local newsroom focused on investigative and public-service statewide journalism, goes on to describe how what began as a “s…