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Richard TofelMay 30, 2024

“The way we raise the money at The Guardian is different than any place I’ve ever been”

“This is truly a jointly owned responsibility among the business side and editorial.”

Joshua BentonMay 21, 2024

ProPublica’s new “50 states” commitment builds on a decade-plus of local news partnerships

With annual revenue of $45 million and a staff approaching 200 people, ProPublica has been one of the big journalism winners of the past decade. And it’s been unusually willing to spread that wealth around the country.

Joshua BentonMay 7, 2024

This year’s Pulitzer Prizes were a coming-out party for online media — and a marker of local newspapers’ decline

For the first time ever, more online news sites produced Pulitzer finalists than newspapers did.

The AI copyright watershed comes into view

“Comparatively little of the attention around news and AI has focused on its impact on the future economic viability of our industry, and 2024 seems likely to be the year in which this changes.” Richard Tofel

Charles Ornstein, ProPublicaMay 30, 2023

How ProPublica reached workers while reporting on dairy farm conditions

“We plan to do more than simply expect that readers will find the story and find us. We plan to take the story to them.”

Connor Goodwin, ProPublicaOctober 14, 2021

The view from here: Rethinking what local news can and should be

“Your newsroom should match the community. It’s the easiest thing to say, it’s very difficult to do.”

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 23, 2021

The LA Times’ Kevin Merida thinks Los Angeles is “the perfect place to redefine the modern newspaper”

“We don’t have to turn around a whole big ship. We can try things.”

Richard TofelSeptember 21, 2021

Fewer grants, more risks: Four rules for nonprofit journalism funders, from the former president of ProPublica

“Any national donor large enough to put out press releases that issues one about making a bunch of $25,000 grants is either trying to fool other people or themselves.”

Joshua BentonAugust 9, 2021

With a tight focus on inequality and a new CEO, the Center for Public Integrity plots a path forward

“I’m not worried about the journalism. But if you don’t have the business and technical infrastructure to support the journalism, then it’s just not going to thrive.”

Sarah ScireNovember 10, 2020

ProPublica experiments with ultra-accessible plain language in stories about people with disabilities

ProPublica’s plain language experiment is a first for a mainstream news organization. Disability experts say it shouldn’t be the last.

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