Medill Study Identifies ‘Paradigm Shift’ in How Local News Serves Readers
These two factors have created the ideal conditions for a suite of new innovations: editorial and news sites need to be designed to prioritize subscription and membership programs
Mark Stenberg • Rose’s Newsletter | Rose James | Substack

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This research looks at the influence of three commonly cited features on the success of digital local news outlets: the background of the publisher, experimentation with different revenue streams, and the wealth of the surrounding community. Of the three, only the wealth of the community is statistically correlated with “success” (which we define... See more