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Articles tagged New York City (8)

Sarah ScireAugust 16, 2023

Could “prying open the vault” to small business loans help save local news?

The precarity of local news outlets has left them with “little to no access to capital.” A new report imagines what state and local government, philanthropies, and community-minded institutions could do to change that.

Hanaa' TameezSeptember 6, 2022

“We can’t just cover the same old shit”: How worker-owned Hell Gate is bringing the alt-weekly voice back to New York City

“I wouldn’t want any readers to get the impression that we have, like, millions of dollars in venture capital that we’re [spending on] sushi Thursdays.”

The Freelance Isn’t Free Act passes to protect workers contracted by New York companies (even if they don’t live in the state)

The passage of the law especially benefits freelance workers who live outside of New York but are contracted by companies in the state. Hanaa' Tameez

Sarah ScireJune 16, 2021

News orgs are getting creative to explain ranked-choice voting to New Yorkers

Questions from readers ranged from basic (What’s ranked choice voting?) to skeptical (Why are we even doing this?) to strategic (How can I optimize my ballot so that [Candidate X] doesn’t win?).

Matter launches in NYC with help from Google and New York Times, reveals new startup class

Did the city of New York just create a platform for hyperlocal news?

Laura Hazard OwenJune 26, 2015

“Learning to write again”: A Duke team tests a new way of reporting on New York City government

This summer, a team of students is testing whether a database-driven, structured journalism model can work well on topics like urban policing and Uber.

Sarah BartlettJuly 25, 2013

Ethnic media is more than a niche: It’s worth your attention

The head of the Urban Reporting Program at CUNY says that to ignore ethnic newspapers is to ignore a set of viable models that could inform the rest of the media business.