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Over the last few years, I’d grown increasingly concerned about not only the lack of progress we were making in addressing the challenges of the digital news environment, but also that, in many cases, it seemed we were going backwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Amy Mitchell<\/strong>, Executive Director, CNTI<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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