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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.”

The Objective StaffSeptember 17, 2020

Are news companies already putting diversity pledges on the back burner?

Plus: Writers reveal problems at Chicago Magazine, and The Atlantic damages trust with transgender readers.

Walt HickeySeptember 10, 2020

Defector’s Kelsey McKinney on how 2020 destroyed the concept of “sticking to sports”

“We can’t cover sports right now, or ever, as an individual and separate thing because sports are the gift we get for making our society as just and fair as possible.”

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 4, 2020

The Pentagon orders the military newspaper Stars and Stripes to shut down by the end of the month

“Trump has taken over VOA, Radio Free Europe, etc…planting loyalists, firing critical journalists. He can’t do that with Stripes so he’s just…zeroing out the budget.”

Rachel del ValleSeptember 1, 2020

When you’re supposed to stay at home all the time, service journalism fills a new role

Service stories used to exist apart from, and as a respite to, the news. In pandemic times, that no longer makes sense.

Luke WinkieAugust 31, 2020

Study Hall, the gossipy media site for freelancers, sees Gawker as its editorial north star

“We feel like we have to create the future of media, as we advocate for the people who work in it.”

Sarah ScireAugust 11, 2020

Outgoing New York Times CEO Mark Thompson thinks there won’t be a print edition in 20 years

Also, the Times now reaches about half of American millennials.

Nicholas QuahAugust 11, 2020

How do you run a fun membership drive in sad pandemic times? Maximum Fun has some ideas

Plus: What Spotify wants premium advertising to sound like, claims of systemic racism at PRX, BBC pushes for podcast audiences in Africa, and can Serial stay special?

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