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Sarah Scire

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Deputy Editor at Nieman Lab

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  • Business Insider will lay off 21% of staff amid AI disruption and “extreme traffic drops outside of our control”

    1 week ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

    LINK: bsky.app  ➚   |   Posted by: Sarah Scire   |   May 29, 2025Business Insider will lay off one in five employees and go “all-in on AI,” CEO Barbara Peng told staff on Thursday. In a memo first reported by New York Times media reporter Ben Mullin, Peng announced that 21% of staff will lose their jobs as Business Insider strives to reduce its reliance on “traffic-sensitive” parts of the business.

  • This owner thinks newspapers are better off diminished than dead

    1 week ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

    Is any newspaper better than a news desert? Steve Strickbine thinks the answer to that question is yes. I recently published a story, “National Trust for Local News sells 21 newspapers to a company with a history of gutting local news outlets.” Strickbine, founder and president of the Arizona-based group that acquired the local publications, didn’t respond to my request for comment before publication, but after the story came out, he got in touch.

  • The second location of Lookout Local launches in Eugene, Oregon

    2 weeks ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

    — Lookout Eugene-Springfield was getting a fresh coat of paint. The new newsroom is the second location of the digital-only, Pulitzer-winning local news startup Lookout Local and, when I stopped by two weeks after its launch, the downtown open-plan office was in the midst of a vivid makeover in teal and tangerine.

  • National Trust for Local News sells 21 newspapers to a company with a history of gutting local outlets

    3 weeks ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

    The sell-off came as an unpleasant surprise to those in Colorado. The nonprofit National Trust for Local News announced on Tuesday that it was selling most of its community newspapers in Colorado — including Arvada Press, Englewood Herald, Littleton Independent, and Parker Chronicle — to the Arizona-based media company Times Media Group. The Trust will retain seven newspapers and its community printing press in Colorado.

  • News publishers see a surge of Facebook engagement from photo posts

    3 weeks ago | niemanlab.org | Sarah Scire

    LINK: www.newswhip.com  ➚   |   Posted by: Sarah Scire   |   May 13, 2025Facebook engagement came “roaring back” for news publishers in the first few months of 2025, according to a new report. The social media tracking company NewsWhip looked at 50 news publishers and found engagement on Facebook has tripled year over year. Many of the top-performing posts were photo posts. The engagement really accelerated in February.

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