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Hanaa' TameezJuly 31, 2024

To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands

From loading up the Wayback Machine to meticulous AirTables to 72 hours of scraping, journalists are doing whatever they can to keep their clips when websites go dark.

Tony MarcanoJanuary 12, 2022

KPCC and LAist are shifting the focus of their politics coverage from politicians to voters. Here’s why.

“Our goal is to reenergize demoralized readers and listeners who’ve given up on civic involvement amid all the vein-popping vitriol.”

Caitlin HernandezJune 3, 2020

KPCC is finding a new role as LA’s COVID-19 help desk. Here’s what it’s learned along the way.

Since early March, our newsroom has received more than 3,300 pandemic-related questions. To date, we have personally answered more than 2,900 of those questions.

Ken DoctorMarch 31, 2020

Newsonomics: Tomorrow’s life-or-death decisions for newspapers are suddenly today’s, thanks to coronavirus

By gutting local advertising overnight, COVID-19 has accelerated strategies — like cutting print days, corporate consolidation, or even closing down offices — that publishers had hoped could wait a while longer.

Nicholas QuahSeptember 24, 2019

Who could have predicted that Podcoin, an app that promised to pay you to listen to podcasts, didn’t work out

Plus: RedCircle wants to build monetization for podcasting’s middle class, Gastropod turns five, and adventures in music licensing.

Christine SchmidtNovember 14, 2018

25 newsrooms have attempted to bridge divisions — in person. Here’s what they’ve learned

“Whenever you have an individual interaction, a lot of the bluster, a lot of the generalizations, a lot of the group identifications fall away,” one participant in Pennsylvania said.

A referendum on media experiments? Here’s what news organizations are toying with in the 2018 election cycle

People from 433 out of 435 congressional districts have signed up for ProPublica’s User Guide to Democracy, reporters from the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times want you to text them, and more. Christine Schmidt

Christine SchmidtJuly 12, 2018

What kind of information — not just content — do you need as a news consumer?

Pulse, a project launched by Sarah Alvarez and Andrew Haeg, aims to help news organizations text their communities to find out.

Nicholas QuahMarch 27, 2018

Homepages may be dead, but are daily news podcasts the new front page?

Plus: What’s going on with Stitcher Premium, Gimlet isn’t actually going to buy NPR One, and how membership works in the age of podcasts.

Ricardo BiltonFebruary 26, 2018

Here are a few details about WNYC’s Gothamist revival (and one big question)

Gothamist is back (yay!), but DNAinfo is not (boo!). Here’s what we’ve learned about the public radio bid to bring the site back.

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