Field notes
Short dispatches from newsrooms, print revivals, and experiments.
A grammar for small newsrooms
House style is a compression algorithm. Here is one that survived four writers.
Notes on a slower publishing calendar
Twelve posts a year, each one edited three times. A year of results.
Letter from a shrinking city desk
Local reporting is not dying evenly. A dispatch from three newsrooms that adapted.
Field notes from a print revival
An annual issue, 3,000 copies, sold out in nine days. The numbers behind it.
Notes on a smaller masthead (4)
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The interview nobody asked for (3)
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Notes on a smaller masthead (3)
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Commissioning without a budget (2)
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Against the launch (2)
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What a house style is for (2)
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How a page earns attention
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