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Tiny News Collective aims to launch 500 new local news organizations in three years At least half of the new newsrooms will be “based in communities that are unserved or underserved, run by founders who have historically been shut out.” By Sarah Scire@SarahScire Jan. 12, 2021, 10:40 a.m. Jan. 12, 2021, 10:40 a.m. The project will offer entrepreneurial journalists a tech stack, business training, legal assistance, and back-office services like payroll for around $100 a month. From the announcement: [We’re] proud to announce a new effort to make the path to journalism entrepreneurship...

For-profit publishers solicit more grants and donors, while nonprofits look for more earned revenues; DEI-led startups get funding and support 2020 was a very bad year for local businesses in America during the COVID-19 pandemic. By July, more than 420,000 small businesses across the country had closed permanently, according to Stephen Hamilton, an assistant professor of economics at George Washington University. Hamilton believes that 13% of U.S. restaurants permanently closed, leaving 1.4 million people unemployed. Meanwhile, local publishers had more news than ever to cover, with a lot les...