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Steve Waldman: “In a time of AI and virtual reality, email might help save local news”

November 24, 2024

Steve Waldman, the champion of local news sustainability,  speculates why newsletters, not websites, build monetization faster and more securely for small news operations.  Some of the reasoning: 

• Emails can be more easily “inserted into the reader news diets”
• There is less dependence on social platforms
• “It’s the one technology that people who are 82 and people who are 22 know how to use.” 

To read the full post on LinkedIn, go here. 

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