Sarah Scire

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LINK: nytco-assets.nytimes.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Sarah Scire   |   May 7, 2025What’s the diminutive of “bump”? A bumplet? Whatever you want to call it, the news industry seems to be experiencing something less than the well-documented “Trump bump” it enjoyed during the president’s first term. The New York Times announced this morning it’d added 250,000 new digital-only subscribers last quarter. The news organization now has 11.66 million total subscribers. It’s a healthy number.

1 week ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

In the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections, a coalition of journalism groups trained 45 journalists in 21 “intensive” sessions over nine months. The editors and reporters came from 22 news organizations ranging from public radio stations to small-town newsrooms to large metro dailies. Afterwards the groups behind the Democracy SOS trainings — Solutions Journalism Network, Hearken, and Trusting News — wanted, quite reasonably, to know: Well, did any of it work?

1 week ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

LINK: www.wgbh.org  ➚   |   Posted by: Sarah Scire   |   May 2, 2025It was a conference of “hard truths.”Nieman Lab local news staff writer Sophie Culpepper and I spent yesterday at the GBH Media Summit here in Boston. The audience heard from industry and philanthropy stalwarts as well as newer voices such as climate news influencer Lauren Bash and the founder of hyperlocal news site Down in the County Andrea Bruce.

1 week ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

LINK: www.axios.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Sarah Scire   |   May 1, 2025The Trump administration debuted a Drudge Report–inspired news site called White House Wire on Wednesday. The .gov site leans into the same all-caps style in black and white as Drudge Report, the news aggregation site.

3 weeks ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

The National Trust for Local News announced on Monday that Tom Wiley, currently president and publisher at the Lee Enterprises-owned Buffalo News, will become its new CEO. Last month, Nieman Lab dove into some of the challenges the National Trust for Local News is facing. They include several formerly profitable newspapers now operating in the red, an exodus of news executives, and frustration with a lack of transparency and clear mission from the corporate offices.