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Archives: December 2018

“Consider these efforts now planned for 2019: Each has in common expertise, access to capital, aspirations for meaningful scale, and a dedication to high-quality local news and the communities it serves.” Jim Friedlich

Doing less harm, not just more good

“Doing good entangles us with moral righteousness, the problematic ‘giving voice to the voiceless.’ Doing less harm instead means understanding how we have conditioned ourselves out of listening to those voices.” Andrea Faye Hart

You can’t solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis

“In the words of your kind of people, the planet will have a very, very bad user experience.” Pia Frey

The rise of international nonprofit news

“As populist governments gain more power, multilateralism faces threats, and the message of isolationism gets stronger, journalists have an even greater role to play in explaining important international issues and encouraging conversation and debate.” Heba Aly

Goodbye attention economy, we’ll miss you

“The attention economy that has been driving the media industry for much of the past decade may be about to give way to a more old-fashioned economy, in which the scarcest resource is once again people’s money, not their time.” Gideon Lichfield

The focus of misinformation debates shifts south

“In complex tinderbox societies, the potential for mis- and disinformation to sow not just social discord but real violence is very clear.” Peter Cunliffe-Jones

Readers are only getting started

“To really be a reader-driven organization, every journalist that works there should be open to the knowledge, ideas, and concerns of their readers. You can’t outsource that interaction to an engagement editor.” Ernst-Jan Pfauth

Personal branding is more powerful than ever

“The exponential rise of influencer culture has shown how powerful having your own audience online can be.” Taylor Lorenz

From bridge roles to product thinkers

“A person doesn’t need to have a product title to be a product thinker. Newsrooms already have these strategists in their midsts — engagement editors, growth editors, digital editors — leading change.” Becca Aaronson

Local news goes minimalist

“The evidence that audiences are unwilling to pay for local news is actually clouded by the fact that most local news is not local at all.” Rachel Davis Mersey

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