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The Natives, the Naturals, the Collaborators, and the Fearful: You can guess which one The Marshall Project’s Gabriel Dance says is “a dangerous group to be in.”
Rather than create geographic diversity, digital news has pushed the industry into a few tight clusters. That has real impacts on the journalism we get.
“The future is very hard to know, but standards of journalistic accuracy apply to descriptions of the future at least as much as they apply to descriptions of the present, if not more so.”
“We died and rose again on the third business day.”
The Scripps–owned local ABC affiliate wants Cincinnatians to think of their city as a two-newspaper town — even if that means ruffling feathers along the way.
“I can’t imagine many stronger indications of one’s desire to engage with a news organization than adding it as a contact in their address book.”
“One thing we tend to forget in this pile-on pursuit of eternal youth is that our target demographic of the moment is bound to grow older.”