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Richard J. TofelSeptember 21, 2021

Fewer grants, more risks: Four rules for nonprofit journalism funders, from the former president of ProPublica

“Any national donor large enough to put out press releases that issues one about making a bunch of $25,000 grants is either trying to fool other people or themselves.”

Casey NewtonSeptember 20, 2021

What I learned from a year on Substack

“The only way a Substack grows is through tweets. I am like 85% serious when I say this.”

The worker-owned Defector, at a year old, has over 40,000 paying subscribers and $3.2M in revenue

Sarah ScireSeptember 2, 2021

“Facebook has always been where my audience was”: Meet some of the local journalists writing the first paid newsletters at Facebook

“I just really wanted to be independent of the chains, quite frankly.”

Julie ReynoldsSeptember 1, 2021

The “shadow bank” that — with the help of public pension funds — is aiding the destruction of local news

Cerberus Capital Management is entrenched in the military industrial complex and its company trained a journalist’s assassins. It also made possible the takeover of Tribune Publishing.

Laura Hazard OwenAugust 31, 2021

Wirecutter, which makes money when you shop, is going behind The New York Times’ paywall

Most Wirecutter readers don’t already pay for The New York Times. That may be about to change.

Sarah ScireAugust 12, 2021

The New York Times is making about a third of its newsletters subscriber-only

The existing newsletters going subscriber-only include On Politics, Well, Watching, Parenting, Smarter Living, At Home and Away, On Tech With Shira Ovide, On Soccer with Rory Smith, and those from columnists Jamelle Bouie, Paul Krugman, and Frank Bruni.

Michael J. SocolowAugust 11, 2021

The traditional ratings weren’t great, but NBC’s Olympics showed video’s future

Media innovations that eventually become commonplace are often first introduced at the Games.

Sarah ScireAugust 9, 2021

Racket joins a rising tide of journalist-owned media startups

Minnesota’s City Pages was closed after its parent company said the pandemic had made the alt-weekly “economically unviable.” Now, four top editors are back with something new.

Laura Hazard OwenAugust 5, 2021

“There was a trap built into the very principles that we got people excited about”: Jay Rosen and Rob Wijnberg on why The Correspondent failed

“It’s important to speak truth. It’s not that important to speak about truth as part of your brand.”

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