Thursday, January 16, 2025 |
| Journalists assume readers are as obsessed with the news as they are. They’re wrong. By Sarah Scire. |
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| “Just as the local news landscape has evolved, so has local news mapping.” By Corey Hutchins. |
The Woods Hole Community has bought the home of CAI, but the station will still have to moveLocal news orgs missed out on political ad money in 2024, and other takeaways from a survey of local media companies What We’re ReadingThe New York Times / Benjamin Mullin
The Washington Post’s new mission: Reach “all of America” →“Ms. Watford, who joined The Post in May, also laid out big-picture goals for the company. Among them: reach 200 million paying users, which the slide deck described as a ‘Big Hairy Audacious Goal,’ or ‘B.H.A.G.'”The Atlantic / Charlie Warzel
Apps for a warming planet →“The experience of logging on and consuming information through the algorithmic morass of our feeds has never felt more dispiriting, commoditized, chaotic, and unhelpful than it does right now. It is useful, then, to juxtapose this information ecosystem—one that’s largely governed by culture-warring tech executives and populated by attention seekers—with a true technological public good.”Institute for Nonprofit News
Google and the Institute for Nonprofit News will fast-track grants to local newsrooms reporting on California wildfires →Newsroom do not have to be part of the INN network to qualify. If approved, INN will disburse grants in “as little as 72 hours.”
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