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Nicole A. ChildersNovember 24, 2020

The moral argument for diversity in newsrooms is also a business argument — and you need both

The business case for diversity and inclusion in newsrooms is important, but emphasizing the moral case is required for real and lasting change.

Smaller and nonprofit newsrooms are weathering the economic impact of Covid-19 better than most, according to one survey

Rachel del ValleNovember 5, 2020

With many children still learning from home, kid-focused news products aim to fill some gaps

Parents “are very much looking for sources that are reliable and sources that will answer questions in the same way that they would answer them.”

Covid-19 has hit newspaper companies hard, but revenue at Fox News and local TV companies rose

Vignesh RamachandranOctober 29, 2020

The Brown Institute’s Local News Lab is developing “smart paywalls” for local newsrooms

The new project helps small- and medium-sized news organizations take advantage of machine learning to deepen engagement and improve subscription conversions.

Dan KennedyOctober 15, 2020

Here’s how entrepreneurial local journalists are fighting back against Alden Global Capital

“I just determined that I would rather do anything else in life than to dismantle a proud newsroom and lay off my friends and colleagues and eventually be laid off myself.”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 13, 2020

New York Magazine brings the 16-year-old Curbed back to life (but says goodbye to its local sites)

“Curbed, of all the digital properties that were created in the birth of internet journalism, has always felt to us editors like a long-lost sibling.”

Sarah ScireSeptember 22, 2020

Nonprofit news organizations are becoming more diverse, but they still lag behind the communities they cover

More than half of all nonprofit outlets have either no people of color or “only a small percentage” within their ranks. The vast majority — more than two-thirds — do not have a single person of color in leadership at the executive level.

Poynter now offers six months of parental leave, putting it on par time-wise with much larger media companies

Sarah ScireSeptember 17, 2020

A new nonprofit newsroom, Mountain State Spotlight, wants to be the watchdog for West Virginia

“In my experience in legacy media, the answer was to throw your hands in the air and say, ‘There’s not much we can do.’ Well, I don’t find that acceptable. We have to find ways to reach those audiences.”

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