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Testify’s groundbreaking investigations in Cleveland show the power of computational methods in courthouse reporting. Why, then, are its stories so hard to replicate?
“We need to better understand what people mean when they say ‘safety.’”
The Philadelphia Inquirer had its best week for new subscriptions ever and The Guardian U.S. broke its single-day fundraising record — twice.
“[Families] know it’s way quicker to get a story out through me than through Univision and Telemundo.”
“Sometimes as journalists, we move around with an attitude that the community is just not going to [understand] us….I think that’s a huge obstacle to being able to do this better.”
Amid the downturn in audio, some executives think the public radio model — with a dash of true crime — might provide a way forward.
I interviewed dozens of journalists and reviewed decades of research on how audiences evaluate journalists’ on-air presentation.
This year’s report documents “network local news sites” like Patch and Axios Local for the first time.
“We are seeing a huge divide between people who are interested in news and those who are not, and I suspect that this divide is intensifying.”