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 “sharply partisan” conversation uncovered common ground when it came to local news.