Technology

A new report argues newsrooms need to do more experiments — like, the kind with randomization and results

Mississippi Today had a question. Did the stories around its Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting affect the way those investigations were received? It’s the kind of question local newsrooms can’t easily test on their own. But researchers from Local NExT Lab at Syracuse University could. In a national survey, 1,768 adults were shown the same investigation...