Media
Local Newsrooms Start Sharing a Reporter
Outlets that spent a century competing are pooling coverage of the beats none of them can staff alone. The arrangement works because the thing they are sharing was never what made them distinct.
Tuesday, August 25th, 2026 Independent & Reader-Supported
Outlets that spent a century competing are pooling coverage of the beats none of them can staff alone. The arrangement works because the thing they are sharing was never what made them distinct.
Declared obsolete for two decades, the press release has instead become the load-bearing document of the information economy, feeding newsrooms, databases and now AI systems.