The idea for the 19th, a nonprofit newsroom that aims to be a source of information for those who have been underserved by and underrepresented in American media, was born during the 2016 presidential election. Emily Ramshaw, then the editor in chief of the Texas Tribune, which itself had blazed a trail in the independent, nonprofit newsroom space when it launched in 2009, remembers that time: “Hillary Clinton’s campaign was far too often centered around questions of a woman candidate’s ‘electab...