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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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October 10, 2019

How are paywalled news outlets preparing to serve residents in California’s mega-power shutoffs?

“If we’re going to have news that is paid for by audiences, we have to talk about the news that should never be behind paywalls.”

Here’s The New York Times’ vision for its product team, now under Alex Hardiman’s leadership

October 10, 2019

From live blogs to time capsules: How CNN is trying to put its breaking news into context

“We needed a product to push out news faster to a consumer, even if it’s just one to two sentence updates.”

October 9, 2019

Fundraising like reporting: How eight nonprofit newsrooms majorly increased their major gifts

“These skills are in some ways very similar to doing journalism. As that was impressed upon the cohort, that helped make a shift: It helped give people a mindset where they felt more confident and realized, ‘Yes, I do have the skills to do this.'”

Here’s a roundup of the latest and greatest research on local news’ impact and future

October 7, 2019

12 local newsrooms, seven states, one big problem: How an INN collaboration is nationalizing the rural healthcare crisis

“If the Iowa Falls newspaper writes about its hospital for two years, it’s an Iowa Falls problem that Iowa Falls has to solve…And by the time you’re talking about a major region of the nation like that, it becomes a national problem to be solved.”

October 3, 2019

The business case for listening to your audience is still murky (but early results are promising)

“Newsrooms generally reported increased levels of engagement and higher-quality conversations with audiences. Nearly all of the grant reports we reviewed reported increased engagement.” That (still) doesn’t yet translate into money.

October 3, 2019

A soccer league, job fairs, and local news: How this Spanish-language news org in New Orleans reshaped its mission post-Katrina

“When we see a need, we are able to get volunteers. We organize and make it happen, so people feel like they are closer to us.”

October 1, 2019

“So where are we?”: A McClatchy newspaper is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to support its education reporting

“Asking people to support the Bee via digital subscription can be a path for us. However, that path is long. This effort can help serve as a bridge.”

Facebook will reportedly only pay a quarter of the news outlets featured on its upcoming news tab

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