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"Journalists, cultural workers, content creators, and other trusted messengers are enabling better civic insight for communities. How do we economically support the civic information future that society needs?"
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"Why, a funder asked me recently, do two intermediaries this funder saw as offering duplicative services both still exist? Because you—and your funder colleagues—let them, I said." But consolidation is a dangerous road.
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Newsrooms have been slow to care about the open social web - but one of their most important support organizations is paying attention.
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The BBC is dying. It needs to be preserved - but doing so will require a radical reinvention.
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"The problem is, if you’re optimizing a product that fundamentally isn’t working for how people get news in 2026, all you’re really doing is riding that buggy off of a cliff with style."
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In a world where traffic is decreasing, publishers are moving more heavily into subscriptions - with very good results.
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Only 8% of respondents believe individual Americans have a responsibility to pay for news. "I don't think that information should be a privilege," one respondent said.
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"The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed."
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"The truth is that prestige journalism is lousy with Bari Weisses, up and down the line. Ask any journalist trying to cover the genocide in Gaza or the social death of gender nonconformists."
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"Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked."
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We don't need to educate our audiences to fit our needs. We need to educate ourselves to fit our audiences.
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"Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in digital media what they think is coming in the year ahead. Here's what they told us." Some essays from the annual collection that caught my eye.