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Even before the U.S. election sped up an exodus from the Elon Musk-owned site, X had reportedly lost one-fifth of its active users in the U.S. and one-third in the U.K.. Bluesky seems to have the juice to win over some of those fleeing users — especially journalists and others interested in news …
9 days ago
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Launched as a rival to Elon Musk's Twitter, Threads now has 275 million monthly active users. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the app is signing up more than 1 million users per day.
16 days ago
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"The problem with voting stories is that the people who make themselves most available don't know what the hell they're talking about."
18 days ago
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The Philadelphia Inquirer had its best week for new subscriptions ever and The Guardian U.S. broke its single-day fundraising record — twice.
24 days ago
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"Sometimes as journalists, we move around with an attitude that the community is just not going to [understand] us....I think that's a huge obstacle to being able to do this better."
26 days ago
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"What we're trying to solve for is not necessarily a business model problem. We're trying to solve for an ownership incentive problem."
about 2 months ago
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The first daily newspaper in the U.S. to become a nonprofit has published a refreshingly readable and transparent annual report.
3 months ago
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Nonprofit newsrooms are competing for limited funding and attention spans, grappling with diminishing returns on social, and trying to address low trust in media. It’s forcing outlets large and small to adapt to survive.
4 months ago
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“I’ve joked about Businessweek(ish); I don’t think that one was really considered.”
4 months ago
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The new brand campaign is aimed at younger versions of existing Journal readers. The various “It’s Your Business” ads center some of the newsroom’s edgier and more evergreen journalism.
6 months ago
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As social platforms falter for news, a number of nonprofit outlets are rethinking distribution for impact and in-person engagement.
6 months ago