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    Articles by Christine Schmidt

    Christine Schmidt is a staff writer at the Lab after having been its 2017 Google News Lab Fellow. Previous newsrooms include The Dallas Morning News, NBC4 in Los Angeles, the Hartford Courant, and a short stint at Snapchat. She hails from Chicago’s Southside Irish and can only give recommendations for thin crust pizza.
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    November 4, 2019
    How The Texas Tribune is revamping its sponsored content (and folding its five-year-old op-ed site)
    “It was a good sandbox to see if there’s a market for these sponsored content pieces, to see how we’d treat them in a design and workflow way, to see if there’s an appetite for people who would pay for it. Now, several years later, we realize we answered all those affirmatively.”
    Here are the four most common questions readers have after consuming a news article (and how to answer them)
    October 29, 2019
    People might not trust local news that much after all — and the way to improve it increases the risk
    “A small reservoir of goodwill exists toward local news organizations because they are local, but this could quickly dry up if Americans perceive more political bias in coverage.”
    October 28, 2019
    Membership at a local TV station? Here’s how San Antonio’s KSAT is plotting a potential revenue stream
    “We have to continually work with our audience to make sure they love us later as much as they love us now.”
    Audio archiving, public meeting tracking, and more local boosts: Here are the 34 news projects Google is funding in North America
    October 22, 2019
    Why the San Francisco Chronicle gave users the option to “support free map access” with LaterPay during the power outage
    “We knew the content had value. What we’re trying to emphasize with our customers is that the content has value — that it’s either subscribe-able or worth paying for.”
    October 21, 2019
    From newsroom to newsletter: How local journalists are DIYing important coverage via email
    Just as blogging allowed a new cadre of journalists to work outside established news organizations in the early 2000s, the email newsletter boom has done the same in local communities. “This is more than 40 hours a week for far less than minimum wage. To be frank, it’s exhausting. I only do it because it’s so important.”
    Watch your URL: Local news outlets have to ward off more politically-funded local competitors ahead of 2020
    October 17, 2019
    “Publishers are going to live or die based on their relationship with readers”: How Quartz is rethinking its membership offerings
    “It’s more similar to an Audible.com subscription, where you’re getting access to this huge library of journalism, than it is to a daily news subscription.”
    October 17, 2019
    The Los Angeles Times and its union now have a contract and (maybe) everyone is happy
    “With this agreement, I am convinced we have assured the revival of The Times under local ownership.”
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