Tag: Knight Foundation
AI takes ONA23 by storm
ONA 23, the Online News Association’s annual conference held last week in Philadelphia, demonstrated just how quickly artificial intelligence and machine learning have become a dominant focus in the industry, even as news organizations largely remain cautious about integrating Large Language Models like ChatGPT into workflows.
Two friendly AI sidekicks for web reading
These plugins help summarize, synthesize and analyze.
2 Kansas City area news outlets show different paths toward nonprofit sustainability
The Beacon is 3 years old. The Northeast News of Kansas City is more than 90. They are part of a surge in nonprofit news outlets and funding.
Creating community-driven journalism that encourages civic engagement
Based on The Green Line’s original theory-of-change models, the Attention Funnel and Action Journey.
Resourcing the most marginalized journalists
Why we need identity-aware safety and security training.
Putting Airtable to work in your newsroom
From surveying readers to tracking impact, it can do a lot more than a spreadsheet.
Harnessing the power of animation to reach underserved audiences
The challenge of communicating critical and lifesaving information across language and literacy barriers is universal. Wordless films cross language and literacy barriers.
Saving democracy is a slogan not a strategy
In the past four years, I’ve seen increasingly fervent articles, studies and op-eds declaring journalism’s essential role in a healthy democracy. As we’ve heard many times before, local news is critical to informing communities and promoting civic engagement. The very presence of a local news organization revives democracy, underpins democracy, sustains democracy, and yet these proclamations have been strikingly disconnected from reality.
Why local journalism needs a funding pipeline
Tech and philanthropic institutions are giving thousands of $5,000 to $250,000 grants to individual newsrooms, but… then what?
Thanks to COVID-19, local news will never be the same. And it shouldn’t be
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted our routines, transformed our social interactions and redefined our relationships. Yet, as odd as it sounds, we’ll likely come to appreciate some of the changes this crisis wrought. Panic has a knack for dislodging lethargy. In local news, this lethargy — in the form of a steadily declining but still … Continued