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Neel DhaneshaJune 3, 2024

What’s in a byline? For Hoodline’s AI-generated local news, everything — and nothing

None of the AI writers seems to have a specific beat, except possibly for what can be best described as “police exploits,” which they all cover with gusto.

Sophie CulpepperApril 22, 2024

What it takes to run a metro newspaper in the digital era, according to four top editors

“People will pay you to make their lives easier, even when it comes to telling them which burrito to eat.”

Laura Hazard OwenApril 11, 2022

As climate change intensifies extreme weather, local newspapers see a bright future in meteorology

“Every phone has a weather app on it. So where do you add value, layer in expertise?”

Sarah ScireJanuary 19, 2022

How newsrooms are experimenting with Twitter Spaces

“We’re starting to wonder, ‘Okay, can this work as a social audio conversation? How can we get more voices on this whether from the audience or our sources?'”

Christine SchmidtOctober 22, 2019

Why the San Francisco Chronicle gave users the option to “support free map access” with LaterPay during the power outage

“We knew the content had value. What we’re trying to emphasize with our customers is that the content has value — that it’s either subscribe-able or worth paying for.”

Laura Hazard OwenFebruary 5, 2019

Researchers crunched 13 TB of local newspaper subscriber data. Here’s what they found about who sticks around.

Surprise: “Subscribers who read many stories per visit and read them thoroughly were no more likely to keep their subscriptions than those who skimmed.”

Northwestern will help local newsrooms study and design a sustainable approach — as local TV news’ potential grows

Facebook’s support for local news subscriptions is one move in the larger dance between publishers and platforms

Shan WangJune 29, 2016

Drawn to the common aim of covering issues around homelessness, Bay Area media organizations unite for the day

“From a purely intellectual, journalistic standpoint, what I think is most fascinating about this is that everybody is more or less covering the same thing, but from their own unique media perspective.”

Joseph LichtermanOctober 26, 2015

In Utah, hundreds of newspaper readers are paying to kill online ads

Since launching in July, The Salt Lake Tribune’s membership program has attracted about 600 paying customers.

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