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    A year in, The Guardian’s European edition contributes 15% of the publisher’s pageviews
    After the launch of Guardian Europe, one-time donations from European readers increased by 45%.
    By Hanaa' Tameez
    The FTC puts an end to “click to subscribe, call to cancel”
    Press Forward awards $20 million to 205 small local newsrooms
    In response to the volume and quality of applications, Press Forward doubled the funding and number of grantees for this open call.
    By Sophie Culpepper
    Hell Gate NYC doubled its subscription revenue in its second year as a worker-owned news outlet
    Midwestern news nonprofit The Beacon shuts down its Wichita newsroom
    “We’ve realized that we can’t do it all, and have made the decision to no longer have a staffed newsroom in Wichita.”
    By Sophie Culpepper
    With Hurricane Milton looming, NPR stations got a lower-bandwidth way to reach residents
    In normal times, text-only websites are a niche interest. But a natural disaster is not normal times.
    By Joshua Benton
    How a 19th-century news revolution sparked activists, influencers, disinformation, and the Civil War
    Long before anyone was accused of being “woke,” the Wide Awakes used new news technology to rapidly construct a national movement.
    By Jon Grinspan
    The typical American TikTok user doesn’t follow a single journalist or traditional media outlet
    How The New York Times incorporates editorial judgment in algorithms to curate its home page
    The Times’ algorithmic recommendations team on responding to reader feedback, newsroom concerns, and technical hurdles.
    By Zhen Yang
    Want to change money in Cuba? It’ll probably involve an exiled news outlet — and AI
    El Toque’s informal exchange rate is used by taxi drivers, restaurateurs, and small businesses across the island. It’s also grown the news site’s traffic tenfold.
    By Andrew Deck
    El País sweetens subscription offering with full access to The New York Times
    One year in, the Israel-Gaza war has cost more than 120 journalists their lives
    The former host of S-Town has a new subject to investigate: Journalism
    After more than a decade in the industry, Brian Reed is Question(ing) Everything about it.
    By Neel Dhanesha
    What’s the journalism we can make for people who don’t trust journalism?
    “You just need somebody with enough charisma that they would carry people over the line. And it wouldn’t be a traditional journalist.”
    By Neel Dhanesha
    Journalism scholars want to make journalism better. They’re not quite sure how.
    Does any of this work actually matter?
    By Jacob L. Nelson, Andrea Wenzel and Letrell Crittenden
    A year in, The Guardian’s European edition contributes 15% of the publisher’s pageviews
    After the launch of Guardian Europe, one-time donations from European readers increased by 45%.
    By Hanaa' Tameez
    Press Forward awards $20 million to 205 small local newsrooms
    In response to the volume and quality of applications, Press Forward doubled the funding and number of grantees for this open call.
    Midwestern news nonprofit The Beacon shuts down its Wichita newsroom
    “We’ve realized that we can’t do it all, and have made the decision to no longer have a staffed newsroom in Wichita.”
    What We’re Reading
    To close out 2023, we asked some of the smartest people we know to predict what 2024 will bring for the future of journalism. Here’s what they had to say.
    The FTC puts an end to “click to subscribe, call to cancel”
    Hell Gate NYC doubled its subscription revenue in its second year as a worker-owned news outlet
    With Hurricane Milton looming, NPR stations got a lower-bandwidth way to reach residents
    How a 19th-century news revolution sparked activists, influencers, disinformation, and the Civil War
    The typical American TikTok user doesn’t follow a single journalist or traditional media outlet
    How The New York Times incorporates editorial judgment in algorithms to curate its home page
    Want to change money in Cuba? It’ll probably involve an exiled news outlet — and AI
    El País sweetens subscription offering with full access to The New York Times
    One year in, the Israel-Gaza war has cost more than 120 journalists their lives
    The former host of S-Town has a new subject to investigate: Journalism
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