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Statewide News Collective: The Community Impact of Independent Journalism: Independent news organizations are having a significant impact on their communities by serving as trusted sources of information, keeping their audiences informed about major issues and stories, and encouraging civic engagement.

Salt Lake Tribune sees robust audience growth after adoption of new editorial tools and workflow: The change in tooling has enabled The Tribune to reduce duplication of effort, allowed editors to plan more effectively, and helped the newsroom focus on how best to tell any given story to have the largest impact on its audience.

From June: the Beyond Print Toolkit: A highly comprehensive step-by-step guide for newspaper operators to reimagine the role of print and build sustainable long-term success.

Lenfest News Philanthropy Network catalyst grant: (deadline is September 5, must be a member of News Philanthropy Network Community of Practice)

Lenfest Engaged Cities catalyst grant: (no deadline, must be a member of Engaged Cities Community of Practice)

Newsletters 2.0: Strategies to delight audiences and grow revenue: offered by the Knight Center and featuring instructors Joseph Lichterman (Lenfest Institute), Caroline Porter (National Trust for Local News), and Emily Roseman (Institute for Nonprofit News). Learn strategies for how to enhance their news organization’s email newsletter strategy by developing products that appeal to audiences and generate revenue.

“Local media can … encourage social interaction and collaboration among residents. This could include community boards, local event listings, and platforms for neighbourhood support. By focusing on community needs and facilitating connections, local news outlets can strengthen their role as essential hubs of local life.” (Hanna Käyhkö/Reuters Institute)

“I think being a small outlet, in three years, is going to be really, really hard from a discovery standpoint.” (Kyle Villemain/Nieman Lab)

“Hedge funds that own many of California’s remaining newspapers will be significant beneficiaries, and they helped push for this outcome.” (Dick Tofel)

“Why should the state use its hammer — and taxpayer dollars — to support the financially driven companies (Alden, Gannett, McClatchy) that have disinvested in California local news? For a bevy of political reasons, no settlement or legislation emerged that effectively deprived them of funding; they, like the ethnic press and digital startups, will receive the same per-headcount funding, with no apparent cap. That still seems like bad public policy, but there’s where it landed.” (Ken Doctor/Nieman Lab)

“University of Florida President Ben Sasse abruptly resigned in July [after] UF’s student-run newspaper reported that spending under Sasse’s office tripled to $17.3 million in his first year as president. Sasse … gave contracts to his GOP allies who worked remotely from Washington, D.C.” (Gabrielle Russon/Poynter)

“Despite an initial statement from Google that it would scale back the feature in late May, three months post-launch it’s clear that AI Overviews are here to stay.” (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)

"If you spend money on paid ads, chances are that you’re being taken advantage of. The biggest providers do it to you because they can and they optimize their systems more and more towards it. (Leah’s ProducTea)

“The core product is never done. Whenever you add something else, it becomes a little bit worse, and then you need to repatch it up.” (Also Leah’s ProducTea)

“The more I designed ways to make live (aka synchronous) collaboration and on-your-own-time (aka asynchronous) collaboration equally valuable, the more I’ve learned what’s possible. By making sure more people can participate in a way that works for them, the results are better. Full stop.” (Sisi Wei/OpenNews)

“Managers must figure out if their current staff is equipped—intellectually, emotionally, technologically—to handle the pace of change in the business.” (Bill Grueskin/CJR)

“Solutions to adaptive challenges reside not in the executive suite but in the collective intelligence of employees at all levels. … A leader must sequence and pace the work. Too often, senior managers convey that everything is important. They overwhelm and disorient the very people who need to take responsibility for the work.” (Ronald Heifetz and Donald L. Laurie/HBR)

“We admire aspects of someone’s educability when we say that they are a quick study, or identify them as ‘coachable,’ but what really makes them educable is that they apply insights ‘for purposes not foreseen at the time of the study or the coaching.’” (Joshua Rothman/New Yorker)

“You need to be a great emotional athlete in order to make the great decisions in life. You need to be ardent enough to feel and astute enough to understand your feelings. Life is not a series of calculus problems. Life is about movement — moving through different terrains and circumstances.” (David Brooks/New York Times)

“Funders incorrectly assume that we need to provide pathways for Black and Latine families to move INTO more affluent, White neighborhoods, while completely ignoring the untapped economic potential that already exists in Black and Latine neighborhoods. This is a colossal failure of imagination and an inaccurate narrative that funders often perpetuate. AND, an opportunity for us to shift the narrative and fund differently!” (Cathy García/LinkedIn)

“The truth? Low quality directly equals low speed. When developers decide to postpone refactoring, skip over the testing phase, or ignore the principles of clean coding, they're setting themselves up for failure, not speeding up the process.” (Saeedreza Abbaspour/LinkedIn)