In my quarter-century as a journalist, I’ve seen many media business models come and go. Each new idea brought with it the hope that this new business structure — or funder or technological development — would be the thing to … Read more
A lot of people threaten to leave Twitter. Not many of them have actually done it. This was true even before Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform a year ago. But the parade of calamities since — cutting back … Read more
Marshall Ganz has a storied history in community organizing. After matriculating to Harvard College in 1960, he left after his junior year to volunteer with the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project and then later joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as … Read more
From the assistant editor It’s been a hard couple of years for local news. Since 2005, over 2,220 newspapers in the U.S. have shuttered. About one-fifth of Americans live in a news desert, without reliable reporting on the issues that … Read more
