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The news org is catering to the readers who spend a lot of time on their phones during live events like sports games and election returns.
“We plan to do more than simply expect that readers will find the story and find us. We plan to take the story to them.”
“We have created this podcast as an easy way for any parent, citizen, or interested party to get the highlights, and our take, on what happened last night at School Committee.”
“Three years ago, I would have said that every platform is super different from the others. Now they’ve all become quite similar.”
“This shows us there’s something unique about kindness which may buffer the effects of negative news on our mental health.”
“We ask people every day to let us in at their worst moments. To give nothing of ourselves in return sometimes feels like denying that we’re [also] people in this equation.”
Including a hair stylist in Overland Park, Kansas, a podcast on Ugandan politics, the 15th track on Linkin Park’s 2010 album A Thousand Suns, and “a watery zone within which a naked man slowly materializes.”
“This is a way to modernize how we do what we do,” Lee said. “It’s more colloquial, it’s more plain-spoken.”