Hannah Farrow
Writer
Farrow, a Medill master’s graduate with a focus on magazine writing, is a 2020 Postgraduate Reporting Fellow at the Pulitzer Center. She interned at the Tampa Bay Times and freelances for several publications.
Farrow, a Medill master’s graduate with a focus on magazine writing, is a 2020 Postgraduate Reporting Fellow at the Pulitzer Center. She interned at the Tampa Bay Times and freelances for several publications.
Articles by or about Hannah Farrow
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Gannett’s Amalie Nash is tired of journalists apologizing when they charge money for their product. After all, other businesses don’t do that. “It’s not like at Starbucks, ‘I’d like a medium coffee.’ ‘Well, sorry, ma’am, we’re going to have to charge you $4 for that,’” Nash said. At a time when local news finances are in need of a double shot, newsrooms are getting more aggressive and less apologetic about their paywalls. And they’re trying...
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Farms, factories, vacation towns — rural can mean a variety of things. And in the midst of a pandemic, during presidential elections and as people live their daily lives, the Daily Yonder aims to cover it all. The digital-only rural news source faces a unique challenge: how to unify a variety of rural readers without pigeonholing them into one category, all while growing readership and seeking policy change. The Daily Yonder was started in 2007...
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As the coronavirus spread across the country, local news outlets reacted to the economic disruption with pay cuts, layoffs and furloughs. They also made a pivot in how they covered the news. Kristen Hare, the local news innovation reporter for the Poynter Institute, cited the “reimagining” of beat reporting in which it’s less about the beat, and more about emerging areas of reader interest. As trends in society shift — or when a coronavirus spreads around the...
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Creative Loafing Tampa Bay moved into a new office last December. Editor-in-chief Ray Roa was on paternity leave while the other employees settled into an open-concept work floor with tall ceilings, exposed bricks and natural light. They’d enjoy yoga classes and team bonding experiences in the office’s event hall, CL Space, which also acts as a main revenue source as it can host up to 200-person gatherings. Soon after Roa returned to the office, the...
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Sadé Carpenter, who recently left Chicago Tribune as the deputy editor of food and dining, walked up to the front of Chicago’s journalism town hall at the Allegro Hotel on Feb. 23. She grabbed the mic and pointed out: “There are a lot of white men on this panel.” Of the 12 panelists, five of them were exactly that. Four of the panelists were journalists of color. Only 21.9% of newsroom employees are members of...
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Chicago has long been known as a media battleground. While many cities are down to one daily newspaper — if that — Chicago has two, plus a wealth of niche news outlets. But as investigative resources dwindle in local journalism, Chicago has become a hotbed for collaboration rather than competition, reflecting a national trend. The goal: Serve the public and have greater impact by teaming up with other newsrooms to produce more fleshed-out, well-rounded reports....
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