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Archives: August 2023

Sarah ScireAugust 16, 2023

Could “prying open the vault” to small business loans help save local news?

The precarity of local news outlets has left them with “little to no access to capital.” A new report imagines what state and local government, philanthropies, and community-minded institutions could do to change that.

Sophie CulpepperAugust 15, 2023

Journalism with a PhD: The Conversation is pairing up academics with reporters for big investigations

“It is elevating investigative reporting to a level where we are able to access … jewels lying on the beach in the research of the academic world.”

Kate HarloeAugust 15, 2023

Are libraries the future of news?

“We share a lot of the same goals. When we talked about mission statements, there were so many similarities.”

Joshua BentonAugust 14, 2023

The New York Times wants to go its own way on AI licensing

Expect the biggest media companies to use their market power to cut better deals with OpenAI and its peers.

Joshua BentonAugust 14, 2023

In The Verge’s new newsletter, there are links and there are links

“I’ve been trying to think of the Bold Links as action items, and the other links as supporting materials.”

Joshua BentonAugust 10, 2023

The poster child for micropayments for news is getting out of the micropayments business

Blendle has been selling news by the article for nearly a decade, but “very limited” demand and the rise of digital subscriptions have done the idea in.

Sarah ScireAugust 9, 2023

What a yarn! Journalists are turning to crochet to tell data stories

“I’m really interested in these beautiful, touchable representations of data that use texture to encode information in a way that our screens cannot reproduce.”

“Pink slime” news sites turn to print ahead of Ohio referendum

Ian Anderson, Gizem Ceylan and Wendy WoodAugust 8, 2023

People share misinformation because of social media’s incentives — but those can be changed

“After a few tweaks to the reward structure of social media platforms, users begin to share information that is accurate and fact-based.” (Though the tweaks involved paying people to do so.)

Sophie CulpepperAugust 7, 2023

A Norwegian newspaper’s “transparency portal” aims to anticipate and answer reader questions about reporting

Readers “have to see this again and again and again, I think, before you really make an impact.”

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