Kristen Hare is a journalist, media watcher and faculty member at Poynter Institute in Florida. Kristen not only documents trends in our beleaguered industry, but she also teaches local journalists the critical skills they need to cover their communities effectively. Before joining Poynter's faculty, she spent eight years covering local news for Poynter's website. In addition to all of this, she also spent two years with the Peace Corps in Guyana, in South America.   At Poynter, she writes a weekly newsletter about local news called Local Edition. She's also got experience in a number of local newsrooms. She has reported for the St. Louis Beacon and the St. Joseph News-Press in Missouri, and she still keeps her hand in by writing feature obituaries for the Tampa Bay Times.   Dan has a Quick Take on a tax credit for news subscribers in Canada, which apparently isn’t working all that well. Maybe it’s something in the permafrost. Ellen looks at a fight for control at the 50-year-old alternative paper, the Chicago Reader.