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    Articles tagged Knight Foundation (336)

    Sophie CulpepperMay 7, 2024
    Most Americans say local news is important. But they’re consuming less of it.
    Just 15% of Americans paid or gave money to a local news source in the past year, according to new research from the Pew-Knight Initiative.
    Press Forward adds 11 new local chapters
    Knight Foundation names longtime Gannett exec next president and CEO
    Laura Hazard OwenOctober 19, 2023
    LION Publishers aims to “help members raise money for themselves” — and to decrease its reliance on a couple big funders
    “While we recognize our members need more funding, we’ve decided that’s not our role as a membership association.”
    Hanaa' TameezSeptember 25, 2023
    “These dollars are not reaching BIPOC newsrooms”: Tracie Powell and Meredith Clark on funding inequities and local news
    “You say you’re giving more dollars to BIPOC newsrooms? Well, you’re actually giving to intermediaries who are filtering down those dollars to BIPOC newsrooms. But they’re not filtering down enough.”
    Sophie CulpepperSeptember 7, 2023
    Is half a billion dollars a big-enough Band-Aid to cure what ails local news?
    The Press Forward coalition, led by the MacArthur Foundation, has pledged to invest $500 million in revitalizing local news over the next five years while working to raise more.
    Half of Americans think most national news orgs intend to mislead or misinform the public, new report finds
    Laura Hazard OwenOctober 20, 2022
    A large portion of the Americans who will pay for news are rich
    About a quarter of Americans have ever paid for news directly. Those who have are more likely to make over $150,000 a year.
    Fewer people — especially younger Democrats — are paying a lot of attention to national news, according to a new poll
    Joshua BentonAugust 6, 2020
    In the arena: Ken Doctor is moving from “media analyst” to “media CEO” with Lookout, his plan for quality local news
    Lookout doesn’t want its local news sites to be a supplement or alternative to the local daily. They aim to be the news source of record in their communities, outgunning their shrunken newsprint rivals from Day 1.
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