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Lee TaehoonDecember 2, 2019

In South Korea, independent newsroom Newstapa has seen what happens when it investigates its donors’ favorite politicians

Under a conservative government that restricted press freedom, Newstapa became a favorite of Korean liberals who backed its lonely fight. But when a more liberal president took charge, some of those donors weren’t too keen on its investigations.

Hanaa' TameezNovember 25, 2019

A new Report for America partnership with the AP will fill statehouse reporting gaps in 13 states

“If a state can’t see itself reflected in the national political story, that’s a problem.”

Hanaa' TameezNovember 25, 2019

The EU doesn’t have a sense of its disinformation problem — this report suggests the policy changes it can make

“In the long run, it is unsustainable for public authorities and private companies to be allowed to mark their own homework in such an important area with no independent oversight.”

“Where there’s no competition, there’s no pressure to do better”: Local news is suffering even in areas where newspapers remain

Artificial intelligence won’t kill journalism or save it, but the sooner newsrooms buy in, the better

Damian Radcliffe and Jaycie SchenoneNovember 15, 2019

Doing more with less: Seven practical tips for local newsrooms to strrrrretch their resources

Content doesn’t need to be perfect to be valuable; share resources within a city, not just a company; and other ideas.

The Washington Post’s union finds that women and people of color in the newsroom make less than white men

Christine SchmidtNovember 4, 2019

How The Texas Tribune is revamping its sponsored content (and folding its five-year-old op-ed site)

“It was a good sandbox to see if there’s a market for these sponsored content pieces, to see how we’d treat them in a design and workflow way, to see if there’s an appetite for people who would pay for it. Now, several years later, we realize we answered all those affirmatively.”

Here are the four most common questions readers have after consuming a news article (and how to answer them)

Julie Posetti, Felix Simon, and Nabeelah ShabbirOctober 24, 2019

What if scale breaks community? How to reboot audience engagement amid political attacks and platform capture

“What are the implications of this weaponization for news organizations in terms of audience engagement and community-building work?”

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