The buyers say a lot of the right things. But since they seem to have no publishing experience, there’s no way to know what their plans are for the corporation, or for the newspaper.
The New York Times’ report comes on the heels of a dispiriting announcement from the American Society of News Editors that the group would be pausing its annual census.
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“The primary obsession this summer and into the fall will be the politics of the pandemic and what that means for women — deeply exploring the ways in which women are disproportionately affected by this moment, which may be a heck of a lot longer than a moment.”
“If you’re looking for someone who has managed a local news organization through a global pandemic, you’re not going to find one. As an industry, we’ve weathered a lot, but this is all new.”
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Scire, Sarah. "The Google-backed Project Oasis hopes to crack the code of successful local digital news organizations." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 18 Mar. 2020. Web. 29 May. 2020.
APA
Scire, S. (2020, Mar. 18). The Google-backed Project Oasis hopes to crack the code of successful local digital news organizations. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 29, 2020, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/03/the-google-backed-project-oasis-hopes-to-crack-the-code-of-successful-local-digital-news-organizations/
Chicago
Scire, Sarah. "The Google-backed Project Oasis hopes to crack the code of successful local digital news organizations." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 18, 2020. Accessed May 29, 2020. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/03/the-google-backed-project-oasis-hopes-to-crack-the-code-of-successful-local-digital-news-organizations/.
Wikipedia
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