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Archives: September 2024

The Kansas City Beacon seemed to be a nonprofit news success story. So what’s going wrong in Wichita?
In the age of “meeting the reader where they are,” mission-driven news orgs say they’re looking beyond the pageview — plus other lessons from ONA 2024.
“What we’re trying to solve for is not necessarily a business model problem. We’re trying to solve for an ownership incentive problem.”
From defunding NPR and PBS to kicking reporters out of the White House, it’s an array of conservative priorities and Trumpian retreads.
Traffic from Google Discover now exceeds traffic from Google Search for some publishers, but what works there is a bit of a guessing game.
“It feels more like a partner and a support than Zetland coming to the Finnish market.”
For one German reporter, the statistical underpinnings of a large language model meant his many bylines were wrongly warped into a lengthy rap sheet.
“If you’re not reaching the people that you want to reach, then what’s the point of doing the work?”
“The day-to-day work of news, journalists reminded us, was the opportunity to learn for a living.”