Newsonomics: Newspapers are Shells of Their Former Selves. So Who’s Going to Build What Comes Next in Local?

Posted Tuesday, November 6, 2018 7:59 am

Ken Doctor | Nieman Lab

Neil Chase knows the painful realities of managing and motivating a daily newsroom in 2018.

“You can’t ask dedicated, veteran career journalists to completely change the way they work without explaining why,” the Mercury News executive editor said at a panel discussion I moderated at Stanford two weeks ago. (The panel’s fitting title? “The Last Stand for Local News.”)

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Newsonomics: Newspapers are Shells of Their Former Selves. So Who’s Going to Build What Comes Next in Local?

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