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Hanaa' TameezDecember 4, 2023

Here’s how 13 news outlets are using LinkedIn newsletters

“While you’re less at the whim of the algorithm, it’s still social media.”

Sarah ScireAugust 24, 2022

How the AP, USA Today, and Northeastern built a database of mass killings that tracks more than shootings

Many mass killings receive relatively little news coverage in the U.S.

Sarah ScireApril 7, 2022

Alongside a subscriber-only investigation on eviction, USA Today publishes a free graphic novel

“I report on people that are in underserved communities all the time, and I sometimes feel like my journalism and my reporting is inaccessible to the people that I write about.”

Joshua BentonJuly 7, 2021

USA Today is getting a paywall. Who’s the audience for it?

The marketplace for online news has thus far rewarded (a) premium quality and (b) local connection. USA Today’s digital subscription offering seems likely, in its current form at least, to fall between those two stools.

Hanaa' TameezApril 27, 2021

“Punched-in-the-gut feeling”: A Gannett union study shows major gender and racial pay gaps in 14 of its newsrooms

“Not only were my male counterparts with similar background/experience getting paid more, there were interns in the newsroom paid a higher wage than I was.”

Hanaa' TameezAugust 20, 2020

Gannett newsrooms, whiter than the communities they serve, pledge broad change by 2025

Gannett said it will “make its workforce as diverse as the country by 2025 and to expand the number of journalists focused on covering issues related to race and identity, social justice and equality.”

Hanaa' TameezMarch 16, 2020

What do sports journalists do when there are no sports to cover?

From high school to the pros, the games that filled sports sections have nearly all been called off. “We don’t have a guidebook on how to cover sports when sports aren’t being played.”

Hanaa' TameezJanuary 30, 2020

With Hecho en USA, USA Today wants to tell Latinos’ “everyday stories about navigating life in America”

And do it in two languages. “The stories are bubbling up from the local reporters who are living and covering these beats and can tell them with the nuance, context, and perspective that brings an authenticity to the national audience.”

Ken DoctorNovember 1, 2018

Newsonomics: “Digital defeats print” is the headline as Gannett steps away from printed election results

In cities across America, you won’t be able to find even the most cursory election results in your Wednesday morning newspaper next week. Is this speeding up newspapers’ transition to digital — or just burning a bridge they still need to cross?

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

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