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Richard J. Tofel: Let’s Stop Trying to Hold Back the Future in News — An interesting and good argument for more change in news practices. Adoption of TikTok and AI feature in this newsletter.

On legacy newspapers:

I am seeing signs that people who should be focusing on creating the future of news are instead still fixated on how these papers can be rescued—through tax breaks or nonprofit conversions or roll-ups.
What approach isn’t compelling to me. It threatens to devote an inordinate share of scarce resources to properties that have forsaken their communities, to focus the betting on franchises many of which are likely beyond effective revival.