By Sarah Scire ▪ Tom Wiley will join the nonprofit as CEO on May 12. He’ll start with a road trip visiting the Trust’s local newsrooms in Maine, Colorado, and Georgia.

By Sarah Scire ▪ Hundreds of grants, fellowships, and awards were terminated because they are no longer “aligned with NSF priorities.”

By Laura Hazard Owen ▪ Tracking the prices of supermarket staples over time is a service to readers — and a way to keep an eye on the national economy.

By Sophie Culpepper ▪ The model could allow local reporters to be part of bigger, better-resourced teams, while maintaining a level of community trust that’s out of reach for most national counterparts.

By Sophie Culpepper ▪ The site will stop publishing by mid-May, CEO Peter Bhatia said Tuesday, and its 43 employees will be laid off.

By Joshua Benton ▪ Columbia University’s Eunji Kim: “The behavioral data tells us that most American life is not political — so why don’t we study what people are actually consuming every day, however lowbrow it may seem?”

By Hanaa' Tameez ▪ The company also removed mentions of “diversity” from its corporate site.

By Andrew Deck ▪ Local news aggregation was primed for automation. In the transition Patch left human curators behind.

By Neel Dhanesha ▪ Is replacing Google worth $10 a month?

By Joshua Benton ▪ A new study finds that the poor, those with less education, young people, and women are less likely to prefer “impartial” news sources over those that align with their own views.

By Hanaa' Tameez ▪ “What exists that will connect Palm Beach with Des Moines?”

By Chatwan Mongkol ▪ From Arkansas rice farms to campus Title IX policy, college reporters are connecting federal decisions to their communities.

By Gretel Kahn ▪ Experts warn that the president’s decision to shut down the U.S. international broadcaster is leaving a void that authoritarian regimes are trying to fill.

By Laura Hazard Owen ▪ Planning to leak? Read these tips first.