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“Imagine a newsroom where half of the room is analysts and half is reporters. You combine what each of them is so good at doing and deliver that every day to the reader.”
“Imagina una redacción donde la mitad sean analistas y la otra mitad periodistas. Combinas lo que cada uno de ellos sabe hacer mejor y se lo entregas día a día al lector”.
Rather than create geographic diversity, digital news has pushed the industry into a few tight clusters. That has real impacts on the journalism we get.
There are more “digital options for coverage at the national level,” but coverage of the government’s impact on individual communities appears to be decreasing.
The site’s founders, heading to Harvard for a Nieman-Berkman Fellowship, are pinning their hopes on a Kickstarter campaign to keep it running for the next year.