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Cleveland.com is embracing AI tools, including an AI rewrite desk.

How nonprofit and for-profit business models can complement each other when big-money media fails.

In Olympia, Washington, a few right-wing media figures have been trying to get credentialed to cover the statehouse. Their efforts—which now include a lawsuit—have shaken up the entire press corps.

A tool for parsing the Epstein dumps. Plus: Papers clash in the Deep South; a decades-long Florida waitlist.

In the college town of Oxford, Ohio, the seventy-four-year-old former mayor is a paperboy. 

With a third of its staff gone, the Post won’t be able to deliver on the vision its leadership has laid out.

Metric Media filed more than nine thousand public records requests last year. It used the data to target Democratic politicians and private citizens.

“They destroyed a whole outlet for a few hundred dollars.”

With its reporting on ICE raids and foreign wars, Amjambo Africa aims to build a more inclusive community.

Independent journalists, content creators, and streamers converge and collide in Minneapolis. The arrests of Georgia Fort and Don Lemon make clear the risks they’re taking.

In an interview, Fort described a challenge in her work documenting news in the Twin Cities: “Every independent journalist is kind of every person for themselves.” Two days later, officers came to her door.

Courageous reporting from Minnesota and Iran. Plus: tone-deafness at the Tribune; spit hoods in Seattle.

“We didn’t go on strike to put the paper out of business. We went on strike to keep it good.”

Five years into supporting outlets that serve communities of color, the cofounder of URL Media talks about the relationship between capitalism and democracy and how nonprofit publishers can operate from a position of power. 

“Until we have solid language here, we’re not going to feel safe about the integrity of our jobs—or the language our readers read.”