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One user: “I do not want to stay in touch with avoidable contacts in Dubai or London. I want to know who lives in my neighborhood and wants to get to know these people.”
Local news consortiums, labs, associations, and more.
“Gazeta Wyborcza is really ambitious, and I think it’s the political situation that is making us so motivated. We’re speeding up some processes that may take much more time in other organizations across Europe.”
“It’s called local news for a reason.”
“As the company succeeds, so would those people. It actually buys in folks to the mission and success of the company rather than a specific project where you get a reward.”
Founded in Pittsburgh, Fitt now has 16 sites across the country and has plans to grow.
“For global media, reaching scale is the hardest thing. In local, making money is the hardest thing. Delaying the hard thing makes for a crappier company.”
The same trends we saw a decade ago — professionalization on one hand, platformization on the other — sure seem to be playing out again.