Chase Davis | Nieman Journalism Lab

Articles by Chase Davis

“Our industry has an unfortunate history of having disruptive emerging technologies inflicted upon it, putting us on the defensive and forcing us to begrudgingly adapt. But this time around, it feels like we’re taking some welcome initiative.”

Trust good, crap bad

“We ride the crap tsunami at our peril.”

Digital subscriber growth will slow, but that won’t be all bad

“Slowing growth will renew our imperative to focus on the needs of our readers and the quality of our products — simply because it leaves us with no other choice.”

The year we look beyond The Story

“There’s something about the mission-driven nature of what we do that makes it easy — maybe too easy — to separate what we do into ‘the journalism’ vs. ‘everything else,’ with the latter often wrongly seen as a cost to the former.”

We can acknowledge what we don’t know

“When it comes to the big questions in local news maybe the safer bet is to admit that no matter how venerable our institutions or talented our people, none of us has the answers”