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Christine SchmidtOctober 1, 2019

“So where are we?”: A McClatchy newspaper is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to support its education reporting

“Asking people to support the Bee via digital subscription can be a path for us. However, that path is long. This effort can help serve as a bridge.”

Christine SchmidtAugust 21, 2019

The Boston Globe continues its regional expansion experiment, with students in a suburb

“Investigative reporting is great to have, but first we need the basics — and we’re no longer getting them.”

Christine SchmidtJune 5, 2019

The Boston Globe’s move into Rhode Island is a bet that the last newspapers standing will have a bigger footprint

“We saw opportunity in Rhode Island where quite honestly great newspapers like the Providence Journal were seeing significant cuts and that market is particularly engaged in news.”

Ken DoctorFebruary 22, 2019

The New York Times’ Mark Thompson on how he’d run a local newspaper: “Where can we stand and fight?”

“I believe that if you’re producing journalism of value, there is no reason to expect that consumers wouldn’t be prepared, in some way, to support that — potentially to pay for it. And that’s probably, ultimately, true of regional and local journalism as well as national and international journalism.”

Joshua BentonNovember 19, 2018

The Boston Globe seeks a contact high from the spread of marijuana legalization

With its new vertical on cannabis, the Globe joins a budding list of local news outlets seeking to build audience via legal pot.

Ken DoctorSeptember 10, 2018

Newsonomics: What the anonymous New York Times op-ed shows us about the press now

The press is, at its best, the strong and steady hand at keeping the public informed. No surprise, it is the twin Watergate-tested news institutions of The New York Times and The Washington Post that continue to lead that informing.

Austin SmithAugust 29, 2018

Why do billionaires decide to buy newspapers (and why should we be happy when they do)?

“If the Post is like Amazon, happy to sell individual slices of its vertically integrated whole, the Times is perhaps more like Apple, bringing its ethos and voice to a more diverse array of products.”

Shan WangAugust 16, 2018

How The Globe and Mail is covering cannabis, Canada’s newest soon-to-be-legal industry

Just for starters, the Globe will have an expanding hub of coverage online, more live events, and a high-priced premium subscription newsletter for industry professionals.

Nicholas QuahJuly 31, 2018

Where should the daily news podcast go from here? (Can we get away from “the commute”?)

“There’s just this prevailing, unshakeable feeling that everybody’s drilling for oil in the same spot because some other guy found oil there already.”

Nicholas QuahJuly 17, 2018

Dog-eared MP3s: The podcast and book publishing industries are finding new ways to cross-pollinate

Plus: S-Town gets sued, Spotlight goes audio, and a remarkable new podcast player named Wilson FM.

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