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Nico GendronJune 26, 2017

“An international audience and a local audience”: How Fusion and The Guardian are changing their coverage of underreported areas

“If editors are the gatekeepers of coverage, how are they going to assign important stories if they are sending their staff writers to parachute in? It struck me as wrong.”

Sam Ford and Federico Rodríguez TarditiJune 21, 2017

What happens when a big news company makes a small bet on “slow innovation”?

How do you keep a focus on issues that may be “No. 6 on the list”? How do you make sustained progress on the things that may not impact the bottom line this quarter, but are important for the medium term?

Nicholas QuahFebruary 21, 2017

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is on a White House hit list for elimination

That’s bad in ways you already know and in more ways you don’t.

Shan WangFebruary 6, 2017

Univision’s plans for the former Gawker sites: A shared business backend, less duplication, and a push into TV

“Think of all these sites as the digital, non-linear television arm of Univision.”

Joseph LichtermanOctober 20, 2016

Can you make learning about gerrymandering fun? Fusion teamed with mobile gaming devs to try

“We wanted to experiment with how we could use game play and video games within journalism.”

Joseph LichtermanSeptember 9, 2016

Here’s a peek inside Fusion’s Center for Innovation & Engagement

In a talk at MIT on Thursday, Sam Ford, who leads the center, explained its goals and gave an overview of some of its projects.

Shan WangAugust 31, 2016

“But it’s…cartoons?”: Comics and cartoons are coming to life well beyond the printed page

In the U.S., the number of full-time editorial cartoonists who hold staff positions might be dwindling, but the narrative of decline excludes a whole host of people stretching the form online in ways that weren’t possible just a few years ago.

Ricardo BiltonAugust 19, 2016

Fusion’s newsletter strategy trades automated feeds for human curation and reporters’ voices

“There’s a thematic through-line and a coherence that you get from reading the intro and the email all the way through. This is not something you’re going to create by just sending out a email RSS feed or using an algorithm.”

Univision is buying Gawker Media and all of its sites (yes, including Gawker.com) for $135 million

Shan WangJuly 1, 2016

“A completely different market”: Why Univision News is now getting into English-language news

“It’s impossible to understand the future of this country if you don’t understand it bilingually. It makes no sense for us not to look at both languages.”

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