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
Press Forward launch. Alden still buying. Texas Tribune’s reckoning. Invasions of Kansas newsrooms. Beyond news fatigue, active news avoidance. “Prompt engineers,” perhaps replacing journalists. With just a few months to go until 2024, we enter a potentially perilous presidential … Read more
Elon Musk has made one thing clear: He has no concern for the future of journalism. Following his takeover of a once vibrant social platform, Musk has done far more than just change the name from Twitter to X. He … Read more
I have a magic trick to offer newsroom leaders: How would you like to pay freelancers more without increasing your budget? It’s possible. And it’s important, especially at a time when newsrooms are increasingly relying on freelance labor. Let … Read more
After a gunman fatally shot a professor on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus on Monday, Aug. 28, the editors of The Daily Tar Heel, UNC’s student newspaper, were unsure of what their front cover should be. Read more
A nonpartisan group of 22 foundations today announced the launch of Press Forward, a nationwide coalition committing more than $500 million over five years to help reinvigorate local news in America. Local news, including the once-thriving newspaper business, has been … Read more
Disruptive and deadly weather extremes have been happening globally at an unprecedented pace, giving rise in recent months to the devastating fires on the Hawaiian island of Maui described as a “total inferno,” flash flooding in the … Read more
The idea of asking for more money after receiving a newsroom job offer at first seemed unfathomable. “You should feel so fortunate to have a full-time opportunity in journalism,” a professor told me in college. Another questioned how I could … Read more
From the assistant editor What would you do if you knew TikTok was tracking your whereabouts? That’s what happened to Forbes tech reporter Emily Baker-White while she was investigating ByteDance, the China-based firm that runs TikTok. But Baker-White’s primary concern was … Read more
Mary Knoblauch, my first full-time editor, died recently. There was a photograph at the wake showing her with a small team of reporters celebrating a series that won some awards. I am one of the reporters in the photo, but … Read more
