“A lot of this is taking advantage of what Google has to offer as a partner. They’re tracking all of these interesting trends all the time: what people are looking for and what they’re missing.”
“We saw opportunity in Rhode Island where quite honestly great newspapers like the Providence Journal were seeing significant cuts and that market is particularly engaged in news.”
Projects, which should be related to local news or revenue generation, can receive up to $300,000 in funding. As in Europe, the launch comes with talk of government regulation in the air.
Yang’s core idea — that local journalism, increasingly unable to pay for itself, should be subsidized by the federal government — would broaden the range of policy proposals up for mainstream political debate.
“I would love to be in 25 cities and I wish we could’ve lived up to that. The financial reality and the operational reality of it was not quite ready for that.”
Schmidt, Christine. "Experience experiments: What Whereby.Us’s membership model looks like after adding a Spirited Media site." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 11 Apr. 2019. Web. 20 Jun. 2019.
APA
Schmidt, C. (2019, Apr. 11). Experience experiments: What Whereby.Us’s membership model looks like after adding a Spirited Media site. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved June 20, 2019, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/experience-experiments-what-whereby-uss-membership-model-looks-like-after-adding-a-spirited-media-site/
Chicago
Schmidt, Christine. "Experience experiments: What Whereby.Us’s membership model looks like after adding a Spirited Media site." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified April 11, 2019. Accessed June 20, 2019. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/experience-experiments-what-whereby-uss-membership-model-looks-like-after-adding-a-spirited-media-site/.
Wikipedia
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