For two years, Tasneem Raja has been putting in the hard work of creating a new local news organization from scratch. Raja, along with her husband, co-founded The Tyler Loop, a digital news site [...]
How likely is it that would you recommend your local newspaper to a friend or colleague? This question is at the heart of Net Promoter Score surveys, a methodology that aims to determine the [...]
What was your high school journalism experience like? If you were anything like me — I’ll tell you the stories of how I got in trouble running my high school paper another time — you probably [...]
I’m sure you’ve noticed: Immigration has been in the news a bit over the past few months. The Pew Research Center noticed, too. The DC-based organization has been conducting research and studying [...]
My life revolves around the calendar app on my phone and laptop. Dentist appointments, work meetings, restaurant reservations, and more are all dutifully logged and color-coded so I can keep [...]
Last Wednesday, North Carolina and Duke played one of the most anticipated games of the college basketball season. On the court, UNC won, but discussion of the game focused on a knee injury Duke [...]
As news organizations have focused on membership-based business models that build on relationships with loyal readers, they’ve turned to an old technology to help connect with readers: email. [...]
Philadelphia is the poorest big city in the United States, and nearly one-in-five residents suffer from food insecurity. It’s a massive challenge for the city, and many organizations are trying [...]
In November 2016, Boston Globe reporter Billy Baker published “The Power of Will,” a five-chapter story about a young boy with cancer and how his father worked tirelessly to try and find a cure. [...]
Last fall, Hamburger Abendblatt, a daily newspaper in Hamburg, Germany, published a deep look at the challenges facing the housing market in the city. In one telling anecdote, the paper [...]
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