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    Christine SchmidtAugust 22, 2019
    Three years into nonprofit ownership, The Philadelphia Inquirer is still trying to chart its future
    Buyouts, rebranding, good journalism, and a vision still in progress: The Philadelphia Inquirer has had quite a summer. The metro newspaper business is still tough, even without a hedge fund or private equity pulling the strings.
    Christine SchmidtAugust 21, 2019
    The Boston Globe continues its regional expansion experiment, with students in a suburb
    “Investigative reporting is great to have, but first we need the basics — and we’re no longer getting them.”
    Christine SchmidtAugust 13, 2019
    Who works best in a revenue development role? Here’s what these local news organizations have found
    It’s “hard to ask for money if you don’t believe in what it’s being spent on.”
    Laura Hazard OwenAugust 13, 2019
    Tighten up that paywall! (And some other lessons from a study of 500 newspaper publishers)
    “The publishers that reported more than 6 percent of unique visitors reaching their stop threshold had ‘thriving’ digital subscription businesses.”
    The unions are (still) coming, and now starting to bargain together
    Ken DoctorAugust 9, 2019
    Newsonomics: The perils — and promises — of New Gannett
    What will the largest local news company need to do and be to be successful in the 2020s? Neither Gannett nor Gatehouse has offered any big vision of what that is, or could be, even fueled by new money.
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    Christine SchmidtAugust 8, 2019
    Pacific Standard is shutting down, cut off from its major foundation funder
    “We’ve been told repeatedly that the amount of funding that came from SAGE was going to be the same for the long term every year and we were responsible for raising additional revenue…and we’ve done that.”
    The New York Times and The Guardian are celebrating good digital revenue news today
    Christine SchmidtAugust 6, 2019
    How Piano built a propensity paywall for publishers — and what it’s learned so far
    “Having a machine-learning framework to say who’s likely to churn, register, and subscribe has been a critical step in us making those experiences more tailored.”
    “I was never going to be able to support myself or my kids”: Journalists talk about why they left the profession
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