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If journalism was to be saved, there were no playbooks to be found overseas.
In the US, many city newspapers had already closed. Two-paper towns had become one-paper towns, and one-paper towns were being left without a paper at all. In part that was newspaper economics, although it was also exacerbated by the fact that many US papers were owned by debtladen companies. The only US papers that seemed to be healthy were The Washington Post, which was bought in 2013 by wealthy Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, News Corp’s Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, which was cementing its position as the global newspaper of record in digital subscriptions.
Wareham Firefighters break in new brush breaker
WAREHAM – You could say Wareham Firefighters were breaking in the new brush breaker truck.
The sparkling new five-ton brush breaker hasn’t even had its service numbers painted on its sides yet.
It was carrying its full load of 750 gallons of water, and 25 gallons of foam. Along with the firefighters it was also carrying 230 or so pounds of journalist who had been invited along for the training drill Saturday.
The training exercise involved locating Chief Matt Rowley and Assistant Chief Patrick Haskell who were secreted deep in the woods on the southern end of the over 12,000-acre Myles Standish State Forest.
The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated a shift in digital advertising spend toward Google and Facebook
Youth-focused publishers Vice and Refinery29 will publish localised versions of their content in Australia under a new deal with Pedestrian Group.
The new deal will see Vice and its sister publication Refinery29 operate as separate websites within the Pedestrian Group, which also publishes PedestrianTV, Business Insider and Gizmodo in Australia. Vice’s TV digital channel, which is run by SBS Australia and Vice World News in Australia and New Zealand is not part of the deal.
Why is the deal happening now?
Vice has operated in Australia since 2014 but has been hemorrhaging staff over the past two years, going from 50 to just two employees in June 2020.
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Less than a year after Vice shrunk its local operations almost to the point of non-existence, Pedestrian has announced it will revive the media brand and launch women’s media site Refinery29 in the local market.
Despite Vice’s previous difficulties locally, and the shuttering of other digital newsrooms including Buzzfeed, 10 Daily, and whimn.com.au, Pedestrian’s CEO Matt Rowley is confident both Vice and Refinery29 will be set up for success.
“In the Pedestrian Group, we’ve actually seen growth year-on-year,” Rowley told reporters, addressing the local media landscape’s condensing.
“Part of what’s behind that is the scale that we’ve got in market. If you think about Pedestrian, it’s always been a self-sustaining business model. It’s needed to be profitable to reinvest in the business and build. It’s never been a venture capital-backed business model.