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Shraddha ChakradharMarch 31, 2022

A local newspaper in Oregon punches above its weight. A politician it investigated wants to buy — and change — it.

“I was tired of getting poked in the chest for not doing anything wrong. And it was like, ‘You know what? If you want to keep poking me in the chest, let me purchase this paper for what it’s worth.'”

Hanaa' TameezMarch 31, 2022

Forming a co-op saved six Canadian newspapers from closing. Here’s how they do business now.

“Being so close to bankruptcy made people realize that what we were offering them was a treasure, but it was pretty fragile.”

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 30, 2022

Journalists are increasingly partnering with outside organizations. A new report offers a glimpse at how that’s going

“Impact is often many years or miles away.”

Local news outlets were targeted in Facebook’s smear campaign against TikTok

Mamoun Alazab and Kate MacfarlaneMarch 29, 2022

Why Telegram — despite being rife with Russian disinformation — became the go-to app for Ukrainians

Many Russians, in light of the Kremlin’s crackdown of independent media, are also turning to the messaging app for information.

Sarah ScireMarch 29, 2022

With cable subscribers on the decline, CNN makes a big bet on streaming with CNN+

CNN has called its new subscription-based service “the most important launch for CNN since Ted Turner launched the network in June of 1980.”

Joshua BentonMarch 28, 2022

Can’t afford $40/month? The Financial Times wants to tempt you with a subset of its stories at a fraction of the price

Its new app, FT Edit, will feature “a curated selection” of eight “deep-dive articles” each weekday morning at a price almost all of its readers can afford. But the ghost of NYT Now looms ominously nearby.

Ken DoctorMarch 28, 2022

“Newspubs”: Let’s try a new word for a new era

“It’s simple, fast, and gloriously free of baggage. It’s not what we’re not, it’s simply what we are. And anyone is free to use it.”

Joshua BentonMarch 24, 2022

After 25 years, Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive are still working to democratize knowledge

“Corporations continue to control access to materials that are in the library, which is controlling preservation, and it’s killing us.”

Sarah OatesMarch 24, 2022

Putin’s control over Ukraine war news is being challenged by online news and risk-taking journalists

A few recent examples of journalistic defiance show that the Kremlin can’t guarantee full control over Russian journalists during the war.

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