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Sophie CulpepperNovember 22, 2023

I’m a media reporter and a diehard Swiftie. I don’t cover Taylor, but here’s how I wish someone would

She’s a billionaire, transforming the music industry in real time. Few living celebrities have her scale of cultural influence. Shouldn’t someone be, at least, attempting to look without fear or favor to see if she’s keeping her side of the street clean?

Knight Foundation names longtime Gannett exec next president and CEO

“This sick beat”: The Tennessean lists job opening for a Taylor Swift reporter

Please enjoy this video of news outlets as glass jars rolling down the stairs

Laura Hazard OwenJune 1, 2023

Gannett journalists across the U.S. will strike on June 5

Gannett has around 200 newsrooms, and editorial employees at around two dozen of those will go on strike.

Joshua BentonMarch 9, 2023

The scale of local news destruction in Gannett’s markets is astonishing

It might not be as mustache-twirling a villain as Alden Global Capital, but its enormous scale has meant enormous losses for local journalism.

Lara Salahi and Christina SmithJune 1, 2022

How college students can help save local news

Partnerships are key ways to sustain local news in places where news coverage is diminishing or critical issues are going underreported.

Laura Hazard OwenMay 10, 2022

“We need to be interesting”: Editors of metro dailies talk about their biggest opportunities and challenges now

“Instead of focusing on one very small geographic area, that same reporter may look for commonalities and trends across multiple areas.”

Joshua BentonNovember 22, 2021

The vulture is hungry again: Alden Global Capital wants to buy a few hundred more newspapers

This time it’s Lee Enterprises in the cross-hairs. Adding it to its empire would leave two American local newspaper giants — Gannett and Alden — and everyone else far behind.

Joshua BentonJuly 7, 2021

USA Today is getting a paywall. Who’s the audience for it?

The marketplace for online news has thus far rewarded (a) premium quality and (b) local connection. USA Today’s digital subscription offering seems likely, in its current form at least, to fall between those two stools.

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