JUNE AFTERNOON IN WASHINGTON, DC, and even though Tara McGowan professes to hate this city, she was having fun. A political operative turned publisher, she sat in a conference room in a We Work office downtown, her fingertips loudly drumming away on the bright orange table. The energetic 36-year-old is the CEO of a company called Good Information, where she oversees a mini empire of progressive local news sites across the United States. Beaming in on a big videoscreen was Pat Rynard, himself a Democratic operative turned journalist and founder of a small political website called Iowa Starting Line, which The New York Times once declared "the 'It' read for political insiders." McGowan had bought the site from him in 2021, making it the eighth in her growing collection of two- to six-person newsrooms stretching from Arizona to North Carolina.
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