Christine Schmidt

"The grants will fund an organization's first dedicated revenue positions, or grow an existing revenue team. Most will fund at least two new full-time positions for 24 months dedicated to revenue and fundraising."

"Things that were on the fires-and-car-accident side of things would get a lot of pageviews, but didn’t seem to have lasting impact on the way that people live their lives around here."

Attention, local newspaper owners: This is now a proven, IRS-approved path to convert your money-losing daily into a community nonprofit. Give it some thought.

It's a big step for Salt Lake City — but also a major opening for other newspapers who might find nonprofit status a more appealing alternative than selling or closing down.

"Asking people to support the Bee via digital subscription can be a path for us. However, that path is long. This effort can help serve as a bridge."

"Nonprofit news organizations have much in common even if their scope or mission differs. Their journalistic missions are shaped largely by the gaps they are trying to fill — investigative at the state, national and global level; more general news at the local level."

"We know journalism cannot bring about change on its own — but it can be a really effective piece of a bigger movement of actors and events that do bring about change."

Buyouts, rebranding, good journalism, and a vision still in progress: The Philadelphia Inquirer has had quite a summer. The metro newspaper business is still tough, even without a hedge fund or private equity pulling the strings.

Remember the (legitimate) spook that Deadspin video stitching together local Sinclair anchors around the country introduced? From creator Timothy Burke's explanation: It was just a strange, spooky thing that happened, cut together in an attempt to play the strangeness and spookiness up.... Abs…

As Nicholas Quah wrote in May, Google Search is now officially surfacing podcast episodes (helping with the eternal visibility/discoverability woes of a growing industry). Google is surfacing podcast episodes in Search based on what's talked about in the show, as well as its title and descriptio…