All entries tagged: BikePortland
The Internet golden age of local policy debate
Sure, the digital age might be killing professional muckraking in local markets, and most of the spadework that becomes local news stories might still come from newspapers. But a new empirical study suggests that all the new online din isn’t crowding out serious policy debate.
Just the opposite: Startup news sites are drawing far more attention [...]
The rise of single-serving libel insurance: If it’s good enough for bloggers, why not small newsrooms?
Sooner or later — as Diane Sawyer, Jeffrey Wigand or the National Enquirer could tell you — anyone who makes a living telling the truth is going to need a good lawyer. That’s why major metro newspapers carry libel insurance policies the size of Abrams tanks. Their deductibles alone can run into seven figures.
But what [...]
