Mediagazer: The Sacramento Bee announces the Tipping Point Lab, staffed by donor-supported reporters working on in-depth stories, launching in early 2020 for three years (Mark Anderson/Sacramento Business Journal)

3:10 PM ET, November 16, 2019

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Mark Anderson / Sacramento Business Journal:

The Sacramento Bee announces the Tipping Point Lab, staffed by donor-supported reporters working on in-depth stories, launching in early 2020 for three years — The Sacramento Bee has developed a philanthropic nonprofit model to fund a team of reporters to work on special projects for the local newspaper and for multimedia.

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Raffaele Colella / The Keyword:

Google News debuts Beyond the Headlines tab, which surfaces in-depth content on key issues in English, with more languages and a mobile version coming in 2020 — Last year, we redesigned Google News with one goal in mind: to help people understand the world through quality, trustworthy and enjoyable news.

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Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:

Jimmy Wales' news site WikiTribune has relaunched as WT:Social, a donor-funded social networking and “news sharing” site where users can edit almost everything — Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a rival to Facebook and Twitter that he hopes will combat “clickbait” and misleading headlines.

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