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Grid News goes live with millions in funding and a team of more than twenty journalists

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    shiruken
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    Helmed by Mark Bauman, a former ABC News reporter, and Laura McGann, former editorial director at Vox. From the New York Times: Matt Yglesias, a co-founder of Vox, will be an editor-at-large and...

    Helmed by Mark Bauman, a former ABC News reporter, and Laura McGann, former editorial director at Vox. From the New York Times:

    The digital publication’s magic bullet is a story format that Ms. McGann calls “a 360,” which examines a single topic from a variety of viewpoints. An article published Wednesday, for instance, looks at the issue of Covid-19 vaccination refusals by pregnant people with contributions from reporters who specialize in science, misinformation, politics and race.

    Matt Yglesias, a co-founder of Vox, will be an editor-at-large and host a Grid podcast with McGann.

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  2. aditya
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    Looks interesting. Thanks for sharing!

    Looks interesting. Thanks for sharing!

    1 vote
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    skybrian
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    This piece doesn't have anything I haven't already read elsewhere, but it's a reasonable summary of the situation. Why everything is so expensive

    This piece doesn't have anything I haven't already read elsewhere, but it's a reasonable summary of the situation.

    Why everything is so expensive

    1 vote
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      skybrian
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      There is a climate change piece that basically shows than any single change you can think of, however enormous it would be in itself, will only make a small dent in the problem: Decarbonize this:...

      There is a climate change piece that basically shows than any single change you can think of, however enormous it would be in itself, will only make a small dent in the problem:

      Decarbonize this: Visualizing what matters most in the climate fight

      It's not new, but worth saying, I suppose.

      I think someone needs to tell these reporters that they need to be weird or nobody is going to pay attention. These articles are extremely conventional. Not a good start.

      3 votes
      1. freddy
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        Thanks for sharing that deBoer piece, hadn't come across it before. Don't agree with it all, but the central argument of standing out makes a lot of sense. There is a real need to be...

        Thanks for sharing that deBoer piece, hadn't come across it before. Don't agree with it all, but the central argument of standing out makes a lot of sense. There is a real need to be idiosyncratic. See this from Alan Sillitoe:

        Every new writer has their own blueprint, or purpose. Fingerprint, if you like. I suppose it’s a matter of art – if you can stomach that word. I don’t use it lightly. If you’ve got something to say, you’ve got to say it in the most direct way possible. There’s this [Nicola] Monaghan woman who wrote The Killing Jar, she’s really very good. She’s got her own private, personal, stamp on writing. If you don’t find that, then it’s no good.

        2 votes