{"id":61938,"date":"2022-02-14T18:31:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T18:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.glaciermediadigital.ca\/?p=61938"},"modified":"2022-02-14T22:33:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T22:33:11","slug":"community-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lodestardigital.ca\/index.php\/2022\/02\/14\/community-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s time for some real talk. In our lifetime, journalism has never been more important than it is today. Journalism keeps people informed. As digital media has become fragmented with other voices, adding more journalism gives the audience access to more credible information. More than ever before, we need a mechanism to protect it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter the Community Leaders program. It\u2019s a cohesive integrated strategy that allows businesses to support journalism through sponsorship, enabling newsrooms to create more stories and delivering more local content that matters to its readership. In turn, businesses sponsor a topic category for one year and are tagged as a community leader for their support. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61941 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lodestardigital.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Community-Leaders-Program-Logo_FINAL-300x283.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lodestardigital.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Community-Leaders-Program-Logo_FINAL-300x283.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lodestardigital.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Community-Leaders-Program-Logo_FINAL-1024x966.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lodestardigital.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Community-Leaders-Program-Logo_FINAL-768x725.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lodestardigital.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Community-Leaders-Program-Logo_FINAL.png 1325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be completely transparent, this is nothing like sponsored content. As with all other earned media, there is no vetting of the content before it goes live. For newsrooms to deliver accurate reporting means that they need to do so with autonomy. The growth of the Community Leaders program is a testament to the unwavering belief, trust and support that the local business community has in\u00a0 journalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vancouverisawesome.com\/housing?google_preview=TU4JKqyDmD0YsbuJigYwsde-kQaIAYCAgKDPsJ2nLg&amp;iu=4326737&amp;gdfp_req=1&amp;lineItemId=5788243345&amp;creativeId=138363503091\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">an example<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Community Leaders program in action. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61940 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lodestardigital.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-13-at-9.06.22-AM-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lodestardigital.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-13-at-9.06.22-AM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.lodestardigital.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-13-at-9.06.22-AM-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lodestardigital.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-13-at-9.06.22-AM-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.lodestardigital.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2022-02-13-at-9.06.22-AM.png 1427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The program sponsor, Weatherguard, chose Housing as their topic. The stories created in support of the topic are cycled through the content feed regularly, and also appear on the sponsor\u2019s page as evergreen content. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In summary, the Community Leaders program offers an encouraging alternative to a collective challenge. If you are a business owner and are interested in participating, please <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.glaciermediadigital.ca\/contact-us\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">contact us.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Community Leaders program is cohesive integrated strategy that allows businesses to support journalism through sponsorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":61948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing","category-community"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Community Leaders -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Community Leaders program is 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