Over the past decades, we’ve watched as one new “innovative” news start-up after another has promised to curb the loss of community journalism in America. They were going to fill the holes left by the ...

Can optimism ever be cruel? I came upon the phrase “cruel optimism” recently and couldn’t forget it. “Cruel optimism” seems like such a contradiction. After all, “optimism” is a word that shines with ...

Counterpoint: The optimism of emerging nonprofit community newsrooms is not ‘cruel,’ it’s ‘intentful’ In each of our communities, local people researched, discussed and decided on a nonprofit model to ...