We’re really trying to build a modern 2020s culture of how a news company operates, which is very engaged and fairly flat. We have a hierarchy in the newsroom to make news decisions, but it’s otherwise a fairly flat organization of mission-oriented, collegial people who actually work in an office.
Every story gets two reads from experienced editors, which I think is under-appreciated — the editing authority that needs to go into the rebirth of local journalism.
All of these playbooks are at least partially written. You sometimes hear people say, “Nobody’s figured it out yet.” But this is all about execution. The two main sources of revenue are advertising and reader revenue — you may as well call it circulation. That was true a long time ago and it’s still true.