News commentary
How Newsrooms Should Cover Themselves
Welcome to Second Rough Draft, a newsletter about journalism in our time, how it (often its business) is evolving, and the challenges it faces. One of the hardest questions editors can face is how to cover their own newsrooms, or their parent companies, when they find themselves in the news.
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State of Play
As newsrooms struggle with rickety business models and precarious finances — as well as new technologies — they are deploying an array of editorial responses.
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Related Knowledge Center: Theoretical journalism
State of Play
Journalism as a profitable product has been in decline for years, raising the questions of what the news is for and what people are willing to pay for.