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“The relationship he has uncovered is more like the co-dependence seen in a destructive relationship, or the way we relate to addictive products such as tobacco that we know are doing us harm.”
Nonprofit newsrooms are competing for limited funding and attention spans, grappling with diminishing returns on social, and trying to address low trust in media. It’s forcing outlets large and small to adapt to survive.
“We talk to a lot of towns where there is no newspaper anymore; there’s no community center anymore; the town store shut down. And this is kind of it.”
Culpepper, Sophie. "Could social media support healthy online conversations? New_ Public is working on it." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 16 Jul. 2024. Web. 7 Oct. 2024.
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Chicago
Culpepper, Sophie. "Could social media support healthy online conversations? New_ Public is working on it." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified July 16, 2024. Accessed October 7, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/07/could-social-media-support-healthy-online-conversations-new_public-is-working-on-it/.
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