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# Four years of The 19th News: The year in review and what’s next
- URL: https://werd.io/four-years-of-the-19th-news-the-year-in-review/
- Published: 2024-01-27T04:03:03.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-27T04:03:03.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: NotableLinks, #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

Honestly, what a lovely thing: a nonprofit newsroom doing important things for news, media, and democracy, for the right reasons - with a women-led, diverse team. And thriving.

60% of the team is BIPOC; nearly 40% is LGBTQ+. And that diversity allows them to tell the sorts of stories that many other newsrooms struggle to reach.

And this allows those stories and perspectives to spread far and wide: "Our free distribution model led our stories to be republished hundreds of times, in national outlets like the PBS NewsHour and HuffPost; local outlets like MinnPost and Connecticut Mirror; and community- and issue-specific outlets like Capital B News and Inside Climate News."

I was once a member of the team; now I'm a cheerleader. I want to see much more of this kind of newsroom - and this newsroom in particular - in the future. [#Media](https://werd.io/tag/Media)

\[[Link](https://19thnews.org/2024/01/fourth-anniversary-year-in-review-2024-vision/)\]