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."

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.

"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…

Sixteen percent of Americans pay for news, a report earlier this year found. It's not exactly trickling down to local outlets.

A growing number of news sites block incognito readers, figuring they're probably trying to get around a paywall. But a change from Google will again let people reset their meter with a keystroke.

"When I was a beat reporter, I used to look at national news and say: How can I localize this? I feel like this is the other way around: What’s going on in our community that people can relate to across all platforms?"

Facebook is introducing more tools for users to kick in subscriptions for publishers, but it's unclear how many subscriptions it will meaningfully drive. The platform has hosted subscription and membership boot camps for publishers before, helping dozens of local news outlets refine their reader…