On the latest “What Works” podcast, Ellen Clegg and I talk with Zuri Berry, the executive editor of The Banner in Montgomery County, Maryland. The Banner is a nearly 4-year-old nonprofit digital startup founded in Baltimore that has been expanding into the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., even as The Washington Post has been cutting back on local coverage. We’re talking reporter, columnist, video producer, digital editor, radio host, audio editor over more than two decades in this business. Berry was deputy managing editor at the Boston Herald and managing editor of two NPR member stations. I’ve got a Quick Take about a journalist who’s run afoul of ICE and who faces deportation to Colombia.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 24, 2026 01:22 UTC