Notably, Columbia University’s Anya Schiffrin, who has made an international beat of getting Google and Meta to pay for news from publishers; Steven Waldman, prolific and ingenious advocate for government subsidies for journalism (and co-founder of Report for America); Tim Franklin, former Poynter president, whose Medill Local News Initiative produces a steady stream of coverage of important trends - last week Penny Abernathy’s latest research on news deserts.