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Joshua BentonMarch 9, 2023

The scale of local news destruction in Gannett’s markets is astonishing

It might not be as mustache-twirling a villain as Alden Global Capital, but its enormous scale has meant enormous losses for local journalism.

Lara Salahi and Christina SmithJune 1, 2022

How college students can help save local news

Partnerships are key ways to sustain local news in places where news coverage is diminishing or critical issues are going underreported.

Laura Hazard OwenMay 10, 2022

“We need to be interesting”: Editors of metro dailies talk about their biggest opportunities and challenges now

“Instead of focusing on one very small geographic area, that same reporter may look for commonalities and trends across multiple areas.”

Joshua BentonNovember 22, 2021

The vulture is hungry again: Alden Global Capital wants to buy a few hundred more newspapers

This time it’s Lee Enterprises in the cross-hairs. Adding it to its empire would leave two American local newspaper giants — Gannett and Alden — and everyone else far behind.

Joshua BentonJuly 7, 2021

USA Today is getting a paywall. Who’s the audience for it?

The marketplace for online news has thus far rewarded (a) premium quality and (b) local connection. USA Today’s digital subscription offering seems likely, in its current form at least, to fall between those two stools.

Hanaa' TameezApril 27, 2021

“Punched-in-the-gut feeling”: A Gannett union study shows major gender and racial pay gaps in 14 of its newsrooms

“Not only were my male counterparts with similar background/experience getting paid more, there were interns in the newsroom paid a higher wage than I was.”

Joshua BentonApril 1, 2021

Maybe just shut up about national politics if you want to reduce polarization?

Shifting the focus of a newspaper’s opinion section from national (Trump! Pelosi! distant, scary!) to local (schools! development! nearby, impactful!) can reduce political polarization, a new study finds.

Covid-19 has hit newspaper companies hard, but revenue at Fox News and local TV companies rose

Hanaa' TameezAugust 20, 2020

Gannett newsrooms, whiter than the communities they serve, pledge broad change by 2025

Gannett said it will “make its workforce as diverse as the country by 2025 and to expand the number of journalists focused on covering issues related to race and identity, social justice and equality.”

Joshua BentonAugust 5, 2020

It continues to be very good to be The New York Times

It now makes more revenue from digital than from print and continues to add new subscribers at a record pace. But its brutal COVID-driven drop in advertising will be echoed all across the industry.

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