Assessment of what news organizations are building and buying: newsletters, audio, vertical video, membership platforms, automation and audience analytics. Coverage reports adoption, staffing cost and the experiments quietly retired. Aimed at product leads, digital editors and funders evaluating the same proposals.
Planning around the newsletter instead of the site inverts the newsroom day: sections are written as editions, stories are scheduled into slots, and the site becomes the archive.
Nathan Brooks · April 23, 2026
Machine transcription turns an hour of tape into a searchable transcript in minutes; the workflow that protects stories also handles consent, verification, and the interview itself differently.
William Elliott · March 31, 2026
Open-source publishing protects the two things small outlets cannot buy back: ownership of their archive and an exit from any vendor — and the ecosystem now supports non-technical teams.
William Elliott · March 8, 2026
Collaborative data investigations let small outlets do work none could afford alone — if the partners settle methodology, credit, and embargo rules before the first record request.
William Elliott · February 14, 2026
SMS news reaches readers on the one device habit they never broke — no download, no algorithm, no notification settings — and small newsrooms are rebuilding daily contact on it.
William Elliott · January 22, 2026