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The two companies are now one, and they'll soon launch a service similar to Outlier's Detroit project in Milwaukee. → Read More
How can a news outlet share power with its audience? That kind of question may make more traditional journalism thinkers quake, but it's an inquiry that more and more news organizations are — slowly — undertaking. "We need citizens to be equipped to navigate the world around us. Be… → Read More
When Report for America announced last week that it was placing 250 journalists into 164 local newsrooms, the list of beats they’d be covering didn’t seem too out of the ordinary. It served as a sort of non-comprehensive to-cover list for local news: climate change’s impacts on a community, rural healthcare, housing struggles, immigrant issues, the effects of population loss, “political… → Read More
"As we build out that newsroom, how do we prioritize people who have experience serving info needs in communities across disciplines?" → Read More
"It's about cutting through the apathy that a lot of people have about tech because it feels mysterious, letting people know there are decisions and changes you can make to your behavior that will feel empowering to people." → Read More
"People just want to learn a playbook. At the high level, it's motivational, but at the grassroots level, it's answering what do your proposals look like, what does your budget look like, how are you talking to donors and members." → Read More
If you're seeking a community around data journalism, fear not: Several are bubbling up in the wake of the Global Editors Network's closure, which was announced a month ago. GEN had maintained the Data Journalism Awards ceremony and Slack for the past several years. This year, the DJAs brought i… → Read More
"Baltimore is a majority black city. When we first started out in 2017, I wanted it to have that point of view, to have a newspaper that serves a black population." → Read More
Remember when news cycles didn't refresh every hour? Or when digital ads weren't tracking your every move online? Or when nation-states weren't weaponizing the unregulated flow of information? Ethan Zuckerman of the MIT Center for Civic Media retraces those days, when the radio emerged as a publicl… → Read More
"The Reader hasn’t turned a profit in ages, although revenue is said to be up almost 50 percent this year." → Read More
"Things that were on the fires-and-car-accident side of things would get a lot of pageviews, but didn’t seem to have lasting impact on the way that people live their lives around here." → Read More
"For some , this program will be a way to get a check. Some of them are going to pick up some ideas and tips and that’s the end of it. For some of them, it’s truly transformational in how they operate." → Read More
McClatchy — now the country's second-largest local newspaper company, after the merger of Gannett and GateHouse closed last week — is trying to diversify its revenue with a focus on investing in its journalism as it teeters on the edge of bankruptcy. Ken Doctor's piece here last week reviewi… → Read More
The guild of the Washington Post — not the news outlet itself, it's important to note — shared its findings from a study of pay at the Post. The results, like most of the journalism industry, were not great, especially on the newsroom side. IN THE NEWSROOM: — Women as a group are paid les… → Read More
It's a big step for Salt Lake City — but also a major opening for other newspapers who might find nonprofit status a more appealing alternative than selling or closing down. → Read More
"It was a good sandbox to see if there’s a market for these sponsored content pieces, to see how we’d treat them in a design and workflow way, to see if there’s an appetite for people who would pay for it. Now, several years later, we realize we answered all those affirmatively." → Read More
Twenty-six Texans walk into a room... ... and discuss news articles. As part of five focus groups with the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, researchers Tamar Wilner, Dominique A. Montiel Valle, and Gina Masullo Chen went straight to a (pretty diverse mix) of non-… → Read More
"A small reservoir of goodwill exists toward local news organizations because they are local, but this could quickly dry up if Americans perceive more political bias in coverage." → Read More
"We have to continually work with our audience to make sure they love us later as much as they love us now." → Read More
"We knew the content had value. What we’re trying to emphasize with our customers is that the content has value — that it’s either subscribe-able or worth paying for." → Read More