“Impact.”
The word is uttered weekly at Friday planning meetings in our Bellingham newsroom when deciding which stories we should cover with our small news staff: “What’s the impact on our audience? Does one story have more potential impact than another?”
More broadly, the word is a measuring stick for occasional reviews of our work, writ large: What impact has creating a news organization from scratch had on its community in two years of existence?
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