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“In the news business there’s often this idea that you have to go out and affect tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands or more people with your publication. That’s not our mission.”
“It’s very easy today to be click-driven and produce articles that don’t have a lot of substance or depth and don’t cost that much to produce, but that dynamic is disappointing for fans who want higher-quality content.”
“We have so many friends in this city doing great things, but there hasn’t been the right platform for them to break through.”
17 projects will receive a total of $3.2 million to track police misconduct, improve the FOIA process, and more.
“Those areas, more than any part of the city, have been disenfranchised over the past 100-plus years. Even though there’s coverage there, it’s often quick, one-hit coverage — parachute journalism.”
Created by Cards Against Humanity, the network wants to connect local podcasts to local advertisers and make it a little easier for creative people to stay in town.
The newspaper partnered with the Solutions Journalism Network to launch Education Lab, which aims to get beyond the problems to potential ways to fix them.
Plus: News Corp. defiantly launches its Sun on Sunday, paywalls and aggregation debates, and the rest of this week’s news about the future of news.
ChiAd wants to find safety — and money — in numbers. Megan Garber
June 22, 2010