news media

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

Civic media seeks not simply to “inform” or “entertain,” but to equip people with the informa -tion they need to make the places they live better

Yes, we live in an age where the pace of news is set by social media. Yet, in accepting that pace, we need not defer to, or worse mimic, that attention span.

the basic point—that media coverage is often misleading, and that this occurs not through making things up but through omission, framing, and decisions about what to treat as important and unimportant—is correct.

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.

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.

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The work of obtaining facts has a major economic disadvantage against the production of bullshit, and it’s only getting worse.