A breakthrough year for public funding: ~$74M reaching local newsrooms via new state laws, plus Lenfest's $1.8M in Philadelphia, a $20M California fund, and $500K in Washington fellowships.
Global trust in news fell to 37% — the lowest the Reuters Institute has ever recorded — and platforms and chatbots now outrank news sites as the way people find the news.
Inaugural Neal Conan Prize winner Jane Ferguson shares an update on Noosphere: the first deal with Sky News, the launch of Sky News Defence, and a new head of engineering.
