Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, had said last year that there no need for a state news agency since he conducts daily press briefings.
“If we really want to serve communities that are increasingly tuning us out, increasingly unsubscribing, increasingly looking the other way — my God, we’ve got to go to the communities directly.”
After a $61 million acquisition by public media, Chicago-Sun Times readers get free content and the newsroom has grown. But no one’s taking a victory lap for local news yet.
“If we accept that news is a public good, not something we can treat as a product to be traded like soap, then we have to develop economic models that somehow get the public to pay for it.”
“Owning our own work, and being beholden to no one but our readers and colleagues — as opposed to say, investors, venture capitalists, or out-of-touch executives — feels like the future.”
Culpepper, Sophie. "Many small news nonprofits feel overlooked by funders. A new coalition is giving them a voice." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 7 Feb. 2024. Web. 13 Oct. 2024.
APA
Culpepper, S. (2024, Feb. 7). Many small news nonprofits feel overlooked by funders. A new coalition is giving them a voice. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved October 13, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/many-small-news-nonprofits-feel-overlooked-by-funders-a-new-coalition-is-giving-them-a-voice/
Chicago
Culpepper, Sophie. "Many small news nonprofits feel overlooked by funders. A new coalition is giving them a voice." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified February 7, 2024. Accessed October 13, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/many-small-news-nonprofits-feel-overlooked-by-funders-a-new-coalition-is-giving-them-a-voice/.
Wikipedia
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