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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?”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 23, 2019

I’ve got a story idea for you: Storyful’s new investigative reporting unit helps publishers dig into social media

In some cases, newsrooms have specific ideas or topics they need researched. In other cases, Storyful has an idea that it looks to find a home for.

Christine SchmidtOctober 21, 2019

From newsroom to newsletter: How local journalists are DIYing important coverage via email

Just as blogging allowed a new cadre of journalists to work outside established news organizations in the early 2000s, the email newsletter boom has done the same in local communities. “This is more than 40 hours a week for far less than minimum wage. To be frank, it’s exhausting. I only do it because it’s so important.”

Christine SchmidtOctober 17, 2019

The Los Angeles Times and its union now have a contract and (maybe) everyone is happy

“With this agreement, I am convinced we have assured the revival of The Times under local ownership.”

Christine SchmidtOctober 10, 2019

How are paywalled news outlets preparing to serve residents in California’s mega-power shutoffs?

“If we’re going to have news that is paid for by audiences, we have to talk about the news that should never be behind paywalls.”

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