1+ hour, 53+ min ago  (725+ words) Last year, the LJP board decided it needed to take a big swing. The nonprofit launched a capital campaign to raise $500,000 with the goal of purchasing a condominium to house three early-career Provincetown Independent reporters. It exceeded its goal in…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (336+ words) After two years of planning, there's finally a date. Well, okay, a month: May. That's when the Salt Lake Tribune, Utah's largest newspaper, will drop its paywall. "Starting in May, all newly published stories on sltrib.com and in the…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (359+ words) Whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero," independent journalist Marisa Kabas, author of The Handbasket, wrote on Bluesky in February. Kabas had teamed up with Katelyn Burns, author of Burns Notice, and Kat…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (172+ words) The Guardian has started cross-posting its weekly food newsletter, "Feast," to Substack, where it hopes to reach new audiences. This is an experiment, according to Press Gazette's reporting; if Feast succeeds on Substack, The Guardian may progress to offering unique…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago  (904+ words) Nonprofit news outlets had a strong traffic month in January'Nieman Lab Nonprofit news outlets had a strong traffic month in January "The news gods provided us with a lot of reporting opportunities " good and bad " that resonated with people." That's…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (343+ words) Today the BBC announced it had selected a new director general: Matt Brittin, the former president of Google's operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. One might see this news and wonder about Brittin's editorial experience. He has very…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (190+ words) In the news industry, there's no shortage of data that says the same thing: young adults and older adults get their news in different ways. The answer is, well, more fun. (Wouldn't we all like that?) In addition to being…...

2+ week, 54+ min ago  (124+ words) The PR software company Muck Rack surveyed more than 1,000 journalists (worldwide, but mostly in North America) about their feelings on the industry. A bunch of the report is about journalists" feelings on pitches and PR people, which isn"t surprising…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (705+ words) Ok I have a wild suggestion" was the text I got from my boyfriend on Feb. 22. The overtly comedic (and often quite crude) videos he posted [at first] did not seem like pinnacles of journalistic integrity," Dylan wrote in what…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (286+ words) Journalism-funding-world spicy isn't the same as, uh, regular-world spicy. But for the journalism-funding world, ProPublica founder Dick Tofel's recent interview with Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro about her new report, "Rebuilding local journalism at scale: A field-level analysis of infrastructure needs," contained…...