April Lindgren is a professor emerita/adjunct professor at the School of Journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University and the founder and co-director of the Local News Research Project. She established and led the Local News Data Hub, a reporting initiative (2021 to 2025) that trained early-career data journalists and shored up local journalism by supplying newsrooms with data-driven stories. Lindgren co-created and manages the crowd-sourced Local News Map, which tracks changes to local news ecosystems. Her research also investigates local news poverty, the role of local journalism as critical community infrastructure, and philanthropic support for journalism. Earlier this year The Walrus published her story examining what happens on the ground in communities across Canada when local news is in short supply.
