Opinion

Legacy Media Needs to Be Transformed, Not Discarded

Legacy Media Needs to Be Transformed, Not Discarded

Local news is a public service profession. We need both commercial and nonprofit outlets to fulfill that mission
Dear Sunnylands: Let’s Widen the Roadmap — and Mark an Achievable Destination for Local News

Dear Sunnylands: Let’s Widen the Roadmap — and Mark an Achievable Destination for Local News

To thrive and grow, local emerging organizations need a new alignment between philanthropy and market-driven business building. We already see the fledgling success of that model
Correcting The New York Times on Trans Issues

Correcting The New York Times on Trans Issues

More than 1,000 Times contributors have sent an open letter asking for the paper of record to examine its biases in reporting on trans issues. The paper's response is part…
Dear Sunnylands, Make More Room for BIPOC, LGBTQ, and Rural Media Leaders at the Table

Dear Sunnylands, Make More Room for BIPOC, LGBTQ, and Rural Media Leaders at the Table

Donors looking to support journalism as “civic information” need to hear directly from leaders of news outlets serving these communities
Press Freedom Community: Prioritize the Defense of Journalism that Serves the Public Interest

Press Freedom Community: Prioritize the Defense of Journalism that Serves the Public Interest

To produce positive social outcomes, press freedom advocacy must shape the global information space to promote accountability and democratic debate
Report from Sunnylands: Revitalizing Local News with New Capital, Creativity, and Collective Action

Report from Sunnylands: Revitalizing Local News with New Capital, Creativity, and Collective Action

A gathering of current and prospective journalism funders and practitioners seeks to reinvent local news as civic information in service of communities
Reporting is Never Merely Reporting

Reporting is Never Merely Reporting

Journalists don’t just observe the world but help shape it — for better or for worse — through our coverage choices
Why Climate Change Stories Need More Context

Why Climate Change Stories Need More Context

Reporters covering climate change should combine traditional and solutions journalism approaches to provide more depth
Newsrooms and Twitter: Focus Less on Elon Musk and More on Your Audience

Newsrooms and Twitter: Focus Less on Elon Musk and More on Your Audience

Since the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk went through in late October, the social media platform has seen a lot of change. Within Musk’s first week on…
Navigating Elon Musk’s Twitterpocalypse

Navigating Elon Musk’s Twitterpocalypse

The news that Elon Musk was actually going through with the purchase of Twitter came as a genuine surprise to me. From the start I somewhat assumed Musk was throwing…