When the pandemic came, Newsy was ready.
The E.W. Scripps-owned news organization faced the coronavirus outbreak with about as many advantages as a newsroom could hope for: digitally native, technologically limber, staffed by and pitched to a mostly millennial cadre.
The world went sideways, and Newsy scarcely missed a beat turning with it. CEO Blake Sabatinelli says that’s because Newsy was built that way.
“We come from a different perspective than a lot of the traditional folks in broadcasting and cable because we were a digital newsroom and did everything remotely before,” he says, noting it could pivot “in a much nimbler way than an organization that is heavily reliant on its studio operations.”
