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The independent news industry gets a roadmap to sustainability

“How a news business compares to others matters much less than how successfully it meets its own goals.” Lisa Heyamoto

Independent news businesses lead the way on healthy work cultures

“Traditional ‘HR’ is changing, and independent news organizations are helping the journalism industry catch up.” Anika Anand

Journalists work from a place of harm reduction

“Next year, I want more people to ask: What would journalism premised on harm reduction look like?” James Salanga

Thinking and acting collectively to save the news

“Collective impact initiatives go beyond the kind of editorial collaborations we usually see in journalism.” Sue Cross

Journalists productively harness generative AI tools

“It’s probably better to think of these tools as internal newsroom tools, making suggestions to reporters and editors rather than generating text that will be directly published.” Nicholas Diakopoulos

Local journalism steps up to the challenge of civic coverage

“There is an urgent need to focus election coverage on the issues and the civic process — not the candidate horse race.” Jim Friedlich

Mission-driven metrics become our North Star

“Gorging on data to micro-target users won’t help us make the major difference necessary to earn people’s trust.” Mary Walter-Brown and Tristan Loper

The year of the climate journalism strategy

“Climate change needs to advance from topic to frame, gaining relevance in every beat to become more subtle and less one-off alarmist.” Alexandra Borchardt

Workers demand to be paid what the job is worth

“Journalists should not only demand the wages we deserve, we should ask for the lifestyle flexibility we need.” Doris Truong

Nonprofit local news shows that it can scale

“We are beginning to see the maturation of and experimentation by a number of individual organizations showing how nonprofit news can scale.” Sarabeth Berman

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