Sarah Scire

1 week ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

LINK: bsky.app  ➚   |   Posted by: Sarah Scire   |   April 15, 2025Last week, Nieman Lab reported that Gannett, the country’s largest newspaper chain, had removed references to “diversity” from its corporate site and would stop publishing diversity information for its newsrooms.

3 weeks ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

A decade ago, journalist András Pethő co-founded the nonprofit investigative site Direkt36. He’d just resigned from Origo, one of Hungary’s leading news sites, over political pressure on the newsroom. Origo went on to become “a mouthpiece of Hungary’s authoritarian government” and “the website that shows how a free press can die.”Direkt36, meanwhile, has cemented its reputation as a newsroom unafraid to investigate “abuses of power, corruption, negligence, and waste” over the past 10 years.

3 weeks ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

— The first time Donald Trump attacked White House reporter Ashley Parker by name on social media was in 2019. It was worrying and unsettling but Parker quickly focused on a silver lining. “There was this wonderful moment where I got to hear from everyone in my life,” Parker told a crowd the International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) on Friday. She heard from a guy she’d gone out with her freshman year. Her sister’s friends from sleepaway camp got in touch.

4 weeks ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

It’s hard not to root for the National Trust for Local News. Heralded as a savior of local newspapers, the nonprofit has presented itself as the ideal foil to the hedge fund-owned chains that slash local newsroom jobs and chase profit over meaningful journalism. The Trust has grown at a remarkable clip since its founding in 2021, expanding to a $50 million media business with 65 newspapers across three states, founding a newspaper from scratch, and buying a printing press along the way.

1 month ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

LINK: www.axios.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Sarah Scire   |   March 20, 2025The digital media company Ziff Davis — owner of CNET, Mashable, Lifehacker, and PC Mag as well as a number of shopping and B2B sites — has acquired The Skimm. The Skimm will join Ziff Davis’s health and wellness division Everyday Health Group as part of the deal. The Skimm will operate as a standalone brand and retain its 75-person staff, according to the announcement.