Sarah Scire | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Sarah Scire

Sarah Scire is the deputy editor of Nieman Lab. Previously, she worked at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and The New York Times.

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August 16, 2023

Could “prying open the vault” to small business loans help save local news?

The precarity of local news outlets has left them with “little to no access to capital.” A new report imagines what state and local government, philanthropies, and community-minded institutions could do to change that.

August 9, 2023

What a yarn! Journalists are turning to crochet to tell data stories

“I’m really interested in these beautiful, touchable representations of data that use texture to encode information in a way that our screens cannot reproduce.”

July 26, 2023

Federal aid for local news gets a makeover

The new bill would create advertising tax credits and payroll tax credits for five years.

July 20, 2023

The Salt Lake Tribune will experiment with a “free-for-all model” after acquiring a Utah weekly

The Moab Times-Independent, owned for generations by the Taylor family, will be donated to the Tribune. The newspaper will transition to free in print for Moab residents and free online for all.

July 19, 2023

Google News Initiative grants in Africa and the Middle East yield mixed results, study finds

A study found many Google News Initiative projects in Middle East and Africa struggle to become more than makeshift versions of the original idea.

July 12, 2023

Government-funded journalism fellowships are taking off in three states (and counting)

Though the fellowship in New Mexico is short — just nine months — the majority of alumni are currently working full-time in newsrooms across the state.

June 27, 2023

If the U.S. wants to boost journalism, it should learn from Canada’s mistakes

“There are other big questions hanging over the program, like whether it has actually helped stave off the collapse of newsrooms.”

Less than a year after launch, The Baltimore Banner says it has 70,000 subscribers

Meta threatens to remove news from Instagram and Facebook over proposed California law

May 31, 2023

With new widgets, The Philadelphia Inquirer wants to be readers’ favorite “second-screen experience”

The news org is catering to the readers who spend a lot of time on their phones during live events like sports games and election returns.

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