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Does any of this work actually matter?
The AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act is being deliberated in both houses of Congress.
It has a much better chance of success than CNN+ ever did. But it still has to convince people its work is distinctive enough to break out the credit card.
It’s the first major redesign since the app launched in 2008.
Partisanship, conspiratorial thinking, and IRL connections make for a potent mix — on both the left and the right.
The Kansas City Beacon seemed to be a nonprofit news success story. So what’s going wrong in Wichita?
In the age of “meeting the reader where they are,” mission-driven news orgs say they’re looking beyond the pageview — plus other lessons from ONA 2024.
“What we’re trying to solve for is not necessarily a business model problem. We’re trying to solve for an ownership incentive problem.”
From defunding NPR and PBS to kicking reporters out of the White House, it’s an array of conservative priorities and Trumpian retreads.
Traffic from Google Discover now exceeds traffic from Google Search for some publishers, but what works there is a bit of a guessing game.