Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro

CEO and co-founder of the National Trust for Local News

ELIZABETH HANSEN SHAPIRO is the CEO and co-founder of the National Trust for Local News, a nonprofit newspaper company dedicated to protecting and sustaining local news, by publishing sustainable community newspapers that safeguard the public trust, elevate facts, empower communities with solutions, and foster a strong sense of place. Founded in 2021, the National Trust owns and operates newspapers in Maine, Colorado, and Georgia –critical sources of news that serve a population of some five million people. Prior to founding the National Trust, Dr. Hansen Shapiro was a Senior Research Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School and led news sustainability research at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.