The message in the virus: differentiate or die

April 22, 2020
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Freelance writers need to think like entrepreneurs One of the lessons we are learning from the corona virus is that the news is a commodity. Nearly everything you want to know about this disease is available online free, everywhere, all the time. In the language of economists, this kind of news product has little “exchange […]

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Smart money is betting on local, trustworthy news

March 3, 2019
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This blog post started out as an explanation to my friends and family in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, why their local newspapers had become shadows of their former selves. Why their newspapers were so thin. Why news coverage was so shallow. Why they felt like they weren’t getting their money’s worth. And we will get […]

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