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I hadn't hear of GNI. Thanks for the link. I'm slightly more suspicious now. Sounds like they want to seed nonprofit news sources that won't gang up and fight
by kemitchell 6y ago
I hadn't hear of GNI. Thanks for the link.
I'm slightly more suspicious now. Sounds like they want to seed nonprofit news sources that won't gang up and fight them for royalties, as in Europe or Australia.
But I read Oaklandside pretty much every day, and I can vouch for their coverage. Especially Natalie Orenstein's writing on the housing and homelessness beat. It's amazing they have a housing a homelessness beat.
- wombatmobile 6y agoSounds like Oaklandside's editors are well intentioned. How will they get funding to pay journalists' wages long term? If they try to do it through advertising, they compete with Google. If they find a sustainable alternative method which can scale to support thousands of local news publications all over the world, they are Houdini.