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Seventy-five journalists and subscription prices that can stretch past $100,000: The energy and environment publisher has built a big content engine for a small community of subscribers.
Five journalism professors from historically black colleges and universities will participate in a program also aimed at increasing newsroom diversity.
Plus: Debating Twitter’s publicness and the ethics of quoting tweets, robot journalists, and the rest of the week’s news about journalism and the web.
“It’s underreported, it’s highly consequential, and there are many layers of complexity,” says Lara Setrakian, Syria Deeply’s co-founder.
Newspaper companies made a smart move in the 1990s investing in online auto classifieds. Is selling it off a short-term gain for long-term pain?
Just defining impact can be challenge, much less measuring it. The Center for Investigative Reporting shares how it’s thinking about a key question for news nonprofits.