Should the worst moment of your life also be your top Google search result? Your “permanent record” is sometimes more about old news stories than court records, and newspapers are increasingly rethinking their responsibilities.
Newspapers have all had to make cuts. But it doesn’t look like they’ve favored the beats that are most important to democracy — watchdog coverage of local governments — over other kinds of news.
Hanaa' Tameez and Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 24, 2020
Lookout doesn’t want its local news sites to be a supplement or alternative to the local daily. They aim to be the news source of record in their communities, outgunning their shrunken newsprint rivals from Day 1.
Meredith Kopit Levien, everyone seems to agree, is the right person to lead the Times into the 2020s. But here’s hoping she’ll view her mission more broadly — including the state of local news in America.
And a willingness to change. “One participant told us this name suggests that ‘We’re on your side. We’re with you…It says that this is Oakland’s side of the story.'”
“Being able to link the promo code to heartfelt messages of why local journalism is so important right now is like a one-two punch that we thought would be powerful with readers.”
Tameez, Hanaa'. "The Dallas Morning News is testing out reporter-specific promo codes for readers on the fence about subscribing." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 12 Jun. 2020. Web. 28 Feb. 2021.
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Tameez, H. (2020, Jun. 12). The Dallas Morning News is testing out reporter-specific promo codes for readers on the fence about subscribing. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved February 28, 2021, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/the-dallas-morning-news-is-testing-out-reporter-specific-promo-codes-for-readers-on-the-fence-about-subscribing/
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Tameez, Hanaa'. "The Dallas Morning News is testing out reporter-specific promo codes for readers on the fence about subscribing." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified June 12, 2020. Accessed February 28, 2021. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/the-dallas-morning-news-is-testing-out-reporter-specific-promo-codes-for-readers-on-the-fence-about-subscribing/.
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