Bottom-Up Shorts: How Local Papers Can Help Combat Social Isolation

Jake Loftis at the 2023 Strong Towns National Gathering. (Photo by ZED Images.)

In this episode of Bottom-Up Shorts, host Norm Van Eeden Petersman is joined by Jake Loftis, a pastor and leader of the Local Conversation group Strong Towns Blair. They discuss the ways that North America’s built environment can lead to social isolation and how Loftis used his local paper to combat that isolation and encourage engagement in his community.

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