This message was sent to ##Email##
|
|
|
|
|
|
Last week Donald Trump said, "I'm gonna open up our libel laws, so when they write purposely negative and horrible, false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money." Under the landmark Supreme Court case of New York Times vs. Sullivan, news organizations could be found liable when they deliberately publish false information, so the law is already established to do that.
READ MORE
The U.S. Postal Service on February 25 filed a notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission that it will reduce prices for market-dominant products, which includes Standard Mail and Periodicals. The reduced rates are due to the removal of the exigent surcharge, which USPS has been collecting since 2014. Postal rates for Total Market Coverage products going at High Density Plus and dropped off at local post offices will decline by 4.3 percent.
READ MORE
There is an inarguable need to preserve our nation's historical record, and The Library of Congress helps our industry do just that by cataloging our editions and maintaining our nation's history. However, the Library still requires 405 newspapers to submit their editions in microfilm, a preservation format that few use today.
READ MORE
 |
|
No-cost content from accredited TV writers including celebrity interviews, weekly in-theater movie previews, Hollywood insider news, nostalgia features, and embeddable TV widgets that keep readers returning to your site. Apply here.
|
|
Weekly NAA Roundup of the latest member announcements and staff changes, NAA announcements, what's on our reading list, and social media posts. The Feb. 26 edition includes The New York Times' Announcement of the First Recipients of the David Carr Fellowship; Greeneville Sun Staff Writer Earns 2016 Public Notice Journalism Prize; The Post's launch of True Crime, a new criminal justice vertical; several staff changes and more.
READ MORE
Legacy newspapers today manage two very different types of businesses: a print business that is slowly declining but actually makes money, and a digital daily news business that is growing audience rapidly but, like other digital content business, is struggling to figure out how to be consistently profitable. Legacy news organizations actually have some huge advantages over digital-only shops and shouldn't be discounted.
READ MORE
NAA announced the seven winning media startups that will participate in the 3rd annual Accelerator Pitch Program at its annual conference, NAA mediaXchange 2016, this April. The program showcases new businesses that fulfill newspapers' print, digital and other needs. Winners will present to about 1,000 news media executives at the conference.
READ MORE
People download ad-blockers because lots of digital ads are intrusive and otherwise stink. There is also a certain "stick it to the man" quality to blocking ads. The problem is that by blocking ads, you don't "Stick it to The Man" — you just stick it to publishers who are trying to deliver good content to you.
READ MORE
NAA took an active role in encouraging Members of Congress to consider a micro-UAS classification during their reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration. If this classification is made by Congress, NAA members would be more quickly permitted to use micro-drones for newsgathering operations.
READ MORE
MediaShift
Data Journalism may be in vogue at the moment, but the practice has a longer history than many people realize.
As the BBC's Bella Hurrell and John Walton remind us in their contribution to a new book I co-edited, "Data Journalism: Inside the global future," many of the principles of present-day data journalism can be traced back to more than 150 years ago.
READ MORE
Poynter
With a windfall from its sale of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, other cash on hand and borrowing, New Media Investment Group could spend as much as $360 million on acquiring small newspapers by the end of the year.
CEO Michael Reed told analysts in a fourth-quarter earnings call that the company will only pay that much if deal terms are right. In two years, it has made 12 acquisitions for $640 million and now has 124 daily papers, the most owned by any chain.
READ MORE
WAN-IFRA
Stories about the reinvention of daily newspaper companies are often not what they seem. They tend to involve traditional media groups not so much investing in the future of news as placing their bets somewhere else entirely. Thus, the U.K.'s Daily Mail Group, and Hearst Corp, in the U.S., are investing more heavily in business media and entertainment. And even Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is now generating 35% of its profit and all its growth from digital property listings.
READ MORE
Marketing Dive
Only eight (or 3.2%) of the 250 top North American publishers are addressing ad block usage from website visitors by blocking access of asking visitors to turn off ad blocking software, according to research from Pressboard.
Three publishers — Wired, Forbes and GQ — block their content from website visitors using ad blocking technology until they turn off the software or pay for an ad-free subscription.
READ MORE
Ad Week
Media executives from television, online and magazine news organizations are optimistic that a mostly mobile audience will present new opportunities for reporting and engagement, even while revenue challenges remain.
Speaking on a Mobile World Congress panel, executives said there are still challenges with making money and efficiently streaming data on mobile.
READ MORE
Bloomberg Business
The New York Times has moved guardedly with Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc., posting just 30 articles a day on new platforms controlled by those companies.
Starting Wednesday, the Times will be posting more than double that number of stories on a new alternative newsreader promoted by Google Inc. The reason? The Times asks readers to buy digital subscriptions after getting 10 free articles a month. Google readers count toward that limit. Facebook and Apple readers don't.
READ MORE
Business Insider
Taboola — the content recommendation platform that works with companies including Business Insider, AOL, and USA Today — is rolling out a new product that will let publishers know precisely which articles are generating the most ad revenue.
The analytics tool also lets publishers compare which referral platforms — like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, or Google Search — are bringing in the most advertising dollars.
READ MORE
American Press Institute
Newspaper publishers in the United States have moved rapidly in recent years to create subscriptions for digital access to their news, and according to an in-depth analysis the landscape is converging around a couple leading models and price structures.
As the traditionally dominant revenue streams of print and advertising come under pressure, almost all newspapers are looking to their readers to contribute more.
READ MORE
Pew Research Center
The online discussion forum, Reddit, launched in 2005, is proving to be one of the more news-oriented social spaces on the Web. While it reaches a relatively small slice of the population, a large majority of its users report getting news there, and Reddit can drive substantial attention to news events.
A new survey from Pew Research Center finds that while just 7% of U.S. adults report using the site, 78% of Reddit users say they get news there.
READ MORE
Digiday
Snapchat is taking a deeper step into direct response marketing with ads that are billed based on consumer actions, not just views.
The new approach to billing is another sign that shopping is coming to the platform, according to sources briefed on the plans. First, starting in April, Snapchat will start selling its app-install ads on a cost-per-install basis, a source close to Snapchat said.
READ MORE
|
Missed last week's issue? See which articles your colleagues read most.
|
|
Don't be left behind. Click here to see what else you missed.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063
|
