Nieman Foundation at Harvard
HOME
          
LATEST STORY
Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization
ABOUT                    SUBSCRIBE

Archives: September 2019

“It was really important to us to have the same kind of high-level conversation with somebody who gives $5 or $500,000.”
Plus: RedCircle wants to build monetization for podcasting’s middle class, Gastropod turns five, and adventures in music licensing.
Corey Ford will take some of the startup-accelerator lessons of Matter Ventures into training the next rounds of Sulzberger Fellows.
“I know we’re on the right track, but we need a conductor to keep us on the rails.”
The network’s pitch to local funders: “By the time the school reforms reached their zenith, there was not a single local education reporter dedicated to covering them.”
NYT en Español’s founding editorial director called the decision “extremely short-sighted,” and many others who’d worked on the product or read and followed it expressed their disappointment.
“Nonprofit news organizations have much in common even if their scope or mission differs. Their journalistic missions are shaped largely by the gaps they are trying to fill — investigative at the state, national and global level; more general news at the local level.”