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Listeners in 10 regions will hear local news after national stories thanks to geo-targeting technology being used in a new way.
“People tend to get very outraged when there’s a death, when something terrible happens in the news, and then the conversation caves. But in the wellness community — in the world that I work in — people are really familiar with the idea of practice.”
Slow news has been pitched as a way to break through the noise and reach audiences exhausted by the daily headlines. But it’s still fast-news junkies who are most attracted to it, this new research finds.
Rich and poor people have different expectations of lifestyle journalism. But some of what they want is the same.
“We can’t cover sports right now, or ever, as an individual and separate thing because sports are the gift we get for making our society as just and fair as possible.”
As the pandemic has worsened an already critical situation, researchers started to live track evictions in 17 cities and launched a scorecard to compare protections for renters in each state.