“The goal is not to produce content for media outlets. It’s to repair broken bridges with local government, to get people to the meetings, get their voices heard, and figure out the line between where the active citizen and journalist is.”
“We were able to demystify this black box, this algorithm that had very scary connotations, and break it down into what ended up being a very simple linear model.”
“We wanted to focus on neighborhoods and we wanted to have a membership model. We didn’t get to do it our way at DNA, at least on the business side. So we said, ‘Let’s just do it our way now.'”
Chicago’s City Bureau is betting on local residents doing this sort of low-key not-quite-journalism at meetings, and now it’s expanding the model to Detroit.
“There are a lot of ways to define ‘community.’ We know it can be built around geography. But there should also be a community of people who care about climate, a community of people who care about criminal justice.”
“In the news business there’s often this idea that you have to go out and affect tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands or more people with your publication. That’s not our mission.”
Bilton, Ricardo. "The Daily Line used reader input to develop its niche subscription business covering Chicago politics." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 18 Jul. 2016. Web. 25 Apr. 2024.
APA
Bilton, R. (2016, Jul. 18). The Daily Line used reader input to develop its niche subscription business covering Chicago politics. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/07/the-daily-line-used-reader-input-to-develop-its-niche-subscription-business-covering-chicago-politics/
Chicago
Bilton, Ricardo. "The Daily Line used reader input to develop its niche subscription business covering Chicago politics." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified July 18, 2016. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2016/07/the-daily-line-used-reader-input-to-develop-its-niche-subscription-business-covering-chicago-politics/.
Wikipedia
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| title = The Daily Line used reader input to develop its niche subscription business covering Chicago politics
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