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The sports and culture website earns 95% of its revenue from subscriptions. When Normal Gossip launched paid subscriptions last month, the podcast gave Defector its biggest one-week increase in more than a year.
“I think [news] could do a better job explaining what major bills will do and the impact it’ll have.”
Some reporters can build a career around their own personal brands. But doing great work requires an infrastructure, including a lot of talented people who don’t get bylines. Barry Sussman — the Watergate journalist named neither “Woodward” nor “Bernstein” — was one.
The passage of the law especially benefits freelance workers who live outside of New York but are contracted by companies in the state. Hanaa' Tameez
No solution is ideal. The worst thing that journalists can do, however, is to step aside and let media owners and platforms decide among themselves.
“As we researched how novels by known violent extremists circulate, we noticed that the sales algorithms of mainstream platforms were suggesting others that we might also be interested in.”
Partnerships are key ways to sustain local news in places where news coverage is diminishing or critical issues are going underreported.
An experiment finds small changes in framing and word choice can elicit significant changes in how science skeptics engage with news coverage of climate change.