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For newsrooms and funders, the takeaway is equally clear: this is a workable template: A creator with community trust + a newsroom with editorial rigor = journalism that reaches further and lands deeper.

making journalism more of an exchange – a partnership between community and journalism so that people don't feel like they're outside of it, that it's not extractive

I see publishing brands scrambling to get out of the ads on pages business models of publishing. Nobody knows what’s coming, of course, only it’s safe to say, we are entering into a period of the job of publishing brands will increasingly shift to convening.

I’ve been tracking a new North Star metric for The Rebooting. It’s AAR, or audience... See more

Anyone at an AI company who stops to think for half a second should be able to recognize they have a vampiric relationship with the commons. While they rely on these repositories for their sustenance, their adversarial and disrespectful relationships with creators reduce the incentives for anyone to make their work publicly available going forward... See more

Maybe it’s because they’re getting their news on social media, but young Americans are accessing digital content less regularly : 41.5% of 18-30s now view digital news at least once a week (a decline of -7.5 points on last year), while 20.5% read digital magazine content weekly (down -10.5%).

Reporters are not political representatives, but they should resemble legislators—at least, the ideal of a legislator—in one important way: They are not meant to be a class apart, mandarins of a special caste, but citizens working to advance certain public interests. What they need is not some special legal status—what they need is bosses with the... See more

Newsrooms have to understand that they’re in a relationship business, and reorganize themselves around that simple fact.