Let’s start with an encouraging statistic: Despite years of demoralizing reports on sweeping media layoffs, nearly 300 new digital local news organizations have launched since 2016. That number, which comes from a 2021 study by Project … Read more
Mining public records can be tedious work — especially more than 40 million of them. But as the findings finally came into focus, not even the just-the-facts questions of their veteran investigative editors could dampen the excitement of the young … Read more
In late November, Ravish Kumar, one of India’s leading broadcast journalists, resigned from his job as senior executive editor of New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV), the last influential network still willing to cover Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government … Read more
When Forbes tech reporter Emily Baker-White found out last year that ByteDance, the controversial China-based firm that runs the video-sharing platform TikTok, had used the app to track her whereabouts as she covered the company, she knew she was … Read more
In May 2022, the Finnish public broadcaster Yle noticed an audience they weren’t reaching. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians displaced by the war had moved to Finland. Yle offered news in Finnish, Swedish, English, and Russian. Now, they wanted to … Read more
The outdoor tables of Kafka Kültür Internet Cafe are covered with piles of empty teacups and ashtrays full of half-smoked cigarettes. Several customers sit and open their laptops, while the chattering and gentle sounds of typing on keyboards and phones … Read more
The Asheville Watchdog is a tiny nonprofit in far western North Carolina, but its editorial meetings could double as a get-together of the Pulitzer alumni club. The project came together on the back deck of the house shared by retired … Read more
When Gloria Chan talks about the work of Green Bean Media, the Hong Kong-focused exile news site she helped found last year in the United Kingdom, she is crisply matter of fact. “We are not doing something that special. Read more
Leer en español. La Perla del Sur, one of the few independent media outlets in Puerto Rico to cover news outside the capital, San Juan, announced in June that it was printing its final edition. After four decades, it … Read more
Read in English. La Perla del Sur, uno de los pocos medios independientes en Puerto Rico que cubría las noticias fuera del lente capitalino de San Juan, anunció en junio que imprimía su última edición. Después de cuatro … Read more
