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The News Media Alliance testified at a House Judiciary Committee Congressional hearing, "Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 1: The Free and Diverse Press," on the need to protect the future of journalism through granting news publishers a safe harbor to negotiate for better business terms with the big tech platforms, such as Facebook and Google. The Alliance submitted written testimony Monday, ahead of the hearing.
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The News Media Alliance published findings from a new study that analyzes how Google uses and benefits from news. Among the major findings of the study is that news is a key source on which Google has increasingly relied to drive consumer engagement with its products. The amount of news in Google search results ranges from 16 to 40 percent, and the platform received an estimated $4.7 billion in revenue in 2018 from crawling and scraping news publishers' content — without paying the publishers for that use.
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You can help tell Google — and Congress — that news publishers need a fair deal by running an editorial or op-ed explaining the revenue disparity and the importance of having a thriving news media ecosystem.
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Watch our briefing on the importance of protecting journalism in the online ecosystem.
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The New York Times published a story on the recently released Alliance study on Google's use of news content in driving revenue. You can read more about the study here or go straight to the Times story here.
Alliance CEO David Chavern appeared on CNN's "Reliable Sources" on Sunday, June 9, to discuss the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act.
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Media Nation
A bill filed by U.S. Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Calif., would make it easier for "written news organizations" to claim nonprofit status, "allowing them to focus on content instead of profit margins and reduce their tax burden."
The bill, H.R. 3126, has been endorsed by the News Media Alliance, the National Newspaper Association, the American Society of News Editors, the Associated Press Media Editors, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, the California News Publishers Association, Free Press Action and the Open Markets Institute.
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RJI
A resource that helped The Houston Chronicle shed light on chemical disasters and facilities posing the greatest potential harm to the public, in the event of an emergency, got a new lease on life.
After facing an uncertain future after its original owner — the Center for Effective Government — was shut down, the Right to Know Network has relaunched with a more user-friendly, accessible site design.
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Lenfest Institute
We all know how the traditional journalism process works: Reporters think up story ideas or get a tip, they talk to sources, they produce their coverage and then they hit publish.
Rinse and repeat.
But what would it look like if that paradigm was flipped on its head? In Atlantic City, a group of community leaders and local journalists experimented with a project where those community leaders would source stories that they would then pitch to local reporters to cover.
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Adweek
Independent ad tech has had a tumultuous 2019, with the industry moving away from the free and easy flow of data that marked the early phases of the commercial internet. Much of these transitions have been motivated by increased public scrutiny.
Data prohibition has taken place in the form of legislation such as the General Data Protection Regulation in the E.U. plus the upcoming California Consumer Privacy Act (among other draft laws) in the U.S.
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AdAge
Mary Meeker released her 2019 Internet Trends report at Recode's Code Conference on Tuesday. The "most anticipated slide deck of the year" covers the gamut of all things digital, from the growth of encryption to the internet connectivity of the human race.
This year's total slide count came in at 333, up from 280 when compared to the previous year.
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Reuters Institute
This year's report reveals new insights about digital news consumption based on a YouGov survey of over 75,000 online news consumers in 38 countries including South Africa for the first time.
The report focuses on the progress on new paid online business models, trust and misinformation, the impact of populism, the shift to private messaging apps and the rise of podcasts.
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Nieman Lab
People keep wishing for micropayments. ("Just the one article, please! I'll pay for it!") But micropayments keep not panning out. And just as the world says a not-particularly-teary goodbye to iTunes, the most talked-about candidate for an "iTunes for news" is undergoing a major life change of its own. One of the more promising micropayment startups has been Blendle, the Dutch startup with millions of dollars in investments from The New York Times, Nikkei and Axel Springer.
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MediaPost
From late April to late May, The New York Times and Wall Street Journal both focused heavily on Facebook and Twitter.
The Times spent 50% of its social budget on Facebook and 45% on Twitter, with the remaining 5% going to Instagram, while The Wall Street Journal spent 44% of its budget on Facebook, 54% on Twitter and 2% on Instagram.
Those findings are from a study by intelligence platform BrandTotal that focused on social media spend among the country's top newspapers.
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Engadget
In an effort to make it easier to understand the rules of its platform, Twitter announced that it is simplifying the language around its policies. The company said that it has gone from 2,500 to just 600 words and now describes each rule in 280 characters or less — the same character limit that is applied to tweets.
As part of the change, Twitter has reorganized its rules to create high-level categories that make it easier to find specific topics.
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