The men’s World Cup kicked off today in Moscow. Over the course of the next month, billions of people from all over the world will watch the soccer competition. And news organizations, of course, [...]
As Mexico prepares for national elections this summer, social media is filled with misinformation and disinformation. Images of made up New York Times polls have circulated on Facebook, there are [...]
Would the possibility of earning a beach towel or fleece persuade you to get your friends to sign up for your favorite local news newsletter? WhereByUs, a publisher of local news sites around the [...]
While local news as a whole is struggling, there are often particular neighborhoods or regions that are less well-served by journalists than others. To try and fill those gaps in coverage, one [...]
As news organizations look for new ways to fund their journalism, an ever-growing number of publications are turning to nonprofit organizations that historically haven’t supported journalism for [...]
Last September, journalist Jeremy Klaszus launched a new online news publication. After one successful month of coverage, he closed the site down. This was the plan from the beginning. Klaszus [...]
Local news orgs are often talked about being community institutions, but a local startup in Bristol, England is taking that to a new level. The Bristol Cable is a cooperatively owned and operated [...]
Since President Trump was elected in 2016, West Virginia and the Appalachian region have become where national and international reporters go to find “real America” and understand [...]
Today, Berkeleyside officially closes its direct public offering (DPO), after raising $1 million from the public directly investing in the Bay Area news organization. Berkeleyside launched the [...]
A “news militia” has taken up pens and notepads in East Lansing, Michigan with a mission to inform the community. That’s what Alice Dreger, the publisher of East Lansing Info, calls the scrappy [...]
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