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The Business Models Keeping the News Afloat Amid Uncertainty
From nonprofit conversions to creator-led newsrooms, NPP looks at the news business models that are mostly working (for now), what could work, and what…
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April 2026
The Cost Newsrooms Pay When They Try To Serve Two Audiences
The audience paying for journalism is aging out. The audience replacing them is reading formats that can't fund a newsroom. Outlets trying to serve both…
Apr 30
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News Radio’s Most Severe Silencing Hits Rural America
Network news, public funding, and local on-air talent are all being stripped out of American radio within the same 12 months.
Apr 23
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Why Newsrooms Keep Producing News Nobody Asked For
Newsrooms have a decade of data on what audiences actually want. But they keep ignoring it.
Apr 16
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The Newsroom Gap Fillers
Journalists and technologists are building AI tools that cover what shrinking newsrooms can't. Here's who they are, what they've made, and which gaps…
Apr 9
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A Note to Paid Subscribers Who Support This Newsletter
I want to be straight with you about what you're supporting when you become a paid subscriber to News Pain Points.
Apr 4
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Journalism's Hiring Crisis Is a Firing Crisis
The news industry is burning through its workforce faster than anyone is replacing it.
Apr 2
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March 2026
How Paywalls Starve the News Coverage That Matters Most
The business model that was supposed to rescue local journalism is filtering out the readers who need it most.
Mar 26
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The Local News School Sports Coverage Gap
School sports are booming. The journalism that covered them has collapsed.
Mar 19
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The Metric That Lied To Newsrooms
Web traffic, the metric that newsrooms use to prove their value, no longer measures anything real.
Mar 12
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The Wrong Creators Problem
Newsrooms are partnering with the wrong creators. And it's making the trust crisis worse.
Mar 5
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