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What will the largest local news company need to do and be to be successful in the 2020s? Neither Gannett nor Gatehouse has offered any big vision of what that is, or could be, even fueled by new money.
And they totally won’t pivot again.
View of the ocean from Santa Barbara, Calif.
“We’ve been told repeatedly that the amount of funding that came from SAGE was going to be the same for the long term every year and we were responsible for raising additional revenue…and we’ve done that.”
“The new media continues in the ways of the old conventional media — that is, it supports patriarchy and negative portrayal of women.”
“In other words, the podcast space is in the midst of a plodding consolidation period, and this is just further evidence of that.”
Angwin is part of a new leadership team: Nabiha Syed, formerly associate general counsel at BuzzFeed, will be president, and Evelyn Larrubia, who was executive editor of Marketplace, will be managing editor.