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· 1d
Nonprofit news is growing strong — especially local nonprofit news, a new report shows
Nonprofit news outlets of all types are enjoying revenue growth — but those that focus specifically on local news, rather than state, national, or global news, are doing especially well, according to…
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· 2d
Watchdog journalism’s future may lie in the work of independent reporters like Pablo Torre
With past journalistic stints at both Sports Illustrated and ESPN, Torre is not exactly a pure outsider. Yet he’s far from a household name, with fewer than 200,000 podcast subscribers.
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Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different
CBS: "America," "American," "all of the tools of the digital era," and speed. MSNBC: Press freedom, the First Amendment, and ethics.
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VTDigger, Chicago Reader, and Honolulu Civil Beat see big traffic gains
As is increasingly the case for news outlets, the quirks of the Google Discover algorithm get a lot of the credit. Here’s our latest monthly ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news sites in the United…
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Don’t dwell on “democracy,” and other new findings about how to market local news
"Here’s the paradox: 93% of people believe reliable local news is necessary for democracy, yet many of these same people react negatively to explicit 'democracy' messaging."
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Hell Gate saw a 69% increase in subscribers in its third year of covering New York City
New York City's mayoral Democratic primary this summer — in which Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani defeated disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo — captured the nation's attention, making for…
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· 4d
“Hello, world!” The New York Times hopes to take the success of The Morning global with a new newsletter
The Morning is the most popular news newsletter in the world. Now the Times is launching a video-heavy and personality-driven newsletter targeting readers outside the United States.
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· 5d
More Americans than ever now get news on TikTok, Pew finds
One in five Americans say they regularly get news on TikTok, a dramatic uptick from just 3% in 2020, according to a Pew Research Center analysis published last week. “During that span, no social…
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· 5d
Elon Musk promises to do to Wikipedia what he did to the federal government
Wikipedia is one of the 10 most popular websites on planet Earth and, in this reporter's opinion, one of humanity's greatest modern achievements of the digital age. It's the closest we've gotten to…
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· 7d
The Guardian brings shopping site The Filter across the pond
One year ago, The Guardian launched The Filter, a product recommendation site in the vein of sites like The New York Times’ Wirecutter and New York Magazine’s Strategist. Back then, The Filter was…
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Don’t dwell on “democracy,” and other new findings about how to market local news
"Here’s the paradox: 93% of people believe reliable local news is necessary for democracy, yet many of these same people react negatively to explicit 'democracy' messaging."
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