“Where there is disruption, there is opportunity”: What does the future hold for nonprofit newsrooms?
On March 18, 2020, the staff at
Isthmus, a 45 year old alt-weekly newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin, were scrambling to assemble that week’s newspaper for a coronavirus edition; they had just scrapped their original cover story. But after the paper ran the next morning,
Isthmus’ owners told staff that the alt-weekly’s best chance for survival was to pause operations indefinitely. Within a week, all 23 full-time employees were laid off. “It was incredibly fast,” said Judith Davidoff, the editor of
Isthmus. “I can’t say that any of us thought they were going to shut down that quickly.”
Where there is disruption, there is opportunity : What does the future hold for nonprofit newsrooms?
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