New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet has made the same point in interview after interview over the years: The crisis in local journalism is the biggest threat to American journalism. The [...]
The globe is warming. Print is dying. Sea levels are rising. Newspapers are disappearing. Climate change and the decline of local news may seem like disparate crises, but they’re more connected [...]
“We stole that from you.” Publishers say that to each other a lot during the Facebook Journalism Project’s Accelerator Program, admitting they “stole” or copied another publisher’s strategies to [...]
It was late 2017, and Springfield News-Leader reporter Giacomo Bologna was in the city’s archives pulling documents for a story he was writing about a murder case in the southwest Missouri city. [...]
The Facebook Local News Subscriptions Accelerator Program’s combination of committed local news publishers, expert coaches, and financial support made a tangible and ongoing impact on the [...]
As news organizations move toward a more reader-supported business model through memberships and subscriptions, outlets are bringing positions into the newsroom to help bridge the divide between [...]
It’s hot out. Most of the United States is currently experiencing a heatwave, Europe is bracing for abnormally high temperatures next week, and there are record temperatures in the arctic. One [...]
Chris Horne, founder and publisher of The Devil Strip, an Akron, Ohio-based arts and culture magazine, likes to compare his publication to a small brewery. But instead of making craft beer, it [...]
As news organizations across the globe shift to a greater emphasis on digital audience revenue, much of their collective energy is rightly focused on acquiring new paying supporters. But as these [...]
As local publishers have moved to more reader supported business models such as subscriptions and memberships, outlets have had to find new and innovative ways to convince their communities to [...]
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