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    Christine SchmidtApril 22, 2019
    How The Seattle Times is working with the Seattle Foundation to raise millions for its investigative work
    Hint: It starts with impactful, inclusive journalism.
    Christine SchmidtApril 11, 2019
    Experience experiments: What Whereby.Us’s membership model looks like after adding a Spirited Media site
    “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.”
    Joshua BentonApril 9, 2019
    When local newspapers shrink, fewer people bother to run for mayor
    “In a well-functioning system, citizens need to be actively engaged in their government and aware of decisions made by their elected representatives. Newspapers are a means of citizen engagement, and this study provides evidence of the importance of this link.”
    Christine SchmidtApril 8, 2019
    What kind of local news is Facebook featuring on Today In? Crime, car crashes, and not too much community
    Our analysis of the links 10 cities saw in Facebook’s local news section found funeral home obituaries, years-old stories, and yes, some meaningful local journalism. But not a lot.
    Sarah SchmalbachApril 2, 2019
    Taking local news to the really local level: Using location data to deliver relevant local news
    “We were glad to see hundreds of people install the app and also give it permission to access their location and motion.”
    Laura Hazard OwenMarch 26, 2019
    Most Americans think that local news is doing well financially, and not many pay for it
    Only 14 percent have paid for or given money to local news of any kind — print, digital, public radio pledge drive, anything — in the past year.
    Google is putting dollars straight into building local news outlets in a new experiment with McClatchy
    Facebook and Google are giving more lip service (and boot camps) to local news
    Laura Hazard OwenMarch 19, 2019
    Pittsburgh local news site The Incline finds a new home at WhereBy.Us
    The news comes a couple of weeks after The Incline’s previous owner, Spirited Media, said it was selling off its local news sites.
    Christine SchmidtMarch 18, 2019
    Facebook enters the news desert battle, trying to find enough local news for its Today In feature
    Starting in May, Facebook will also solicit ideas for ways to build community through local news, looking for around 100 participants to receive funding and mentorship.
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