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The European Union is currently revising its copyright legislation for the digital era. Article 11 of the proposed Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market would create a new right for press publishers to the digital use of their publications (the so-called "publishers' right," which we have discussed before). The European Parliament's Legal Affairs (JURI) Committee is due to vote on its compromise amendments to the European Commission's proposal today.
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A unique and diverse set of study cases from GateHouse Media, The Guardian, FT, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Amedia, The Athletic, TheStreet.com, Republik, CBS News Digital, The Day, The Globe and Mail and Facebook, will be showcased at WAN-IFRA's Digital Media North America event on June 26-27 in New York. An exclusive opportunity to gear-up your company's paid-content strategy!
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The conversation around the exorbitant tariffs now being imposed on imports of Canadian newsprint, and their damaging impact on our industry, has reached a critical stage as the International Trade Commission (ITC) ramps up its final investigation. In coordination with the STOPP Coalition, we have launched a petition calling on the ITC to reverse the tariffs. We are hoping to obtain 10,000 signatures by the ITC's scheduled hearing on the case on July 17, but we can only do it with your help. We have provided new digital ads promoting the petition for you to run. We also encourage you to share this petition broadly with your readers via email and social media.
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AdPortal Tributes automates creating a monthly or quarterly special section in print for obituaries. The best news is that families are not only willing to pay extra, the sections are in so much demand that newspapers have to print overruns to keep up with requests. Tributes integrates with Legacy.com to reverse publish recent obituaries to a print special section.
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Earlier this week, the News Media Alliance hosted its inaugural trustXchange event, bringing together journalists, academics and media experts to discuss how the news media industry can work together to regain reader trust. TrustXchange was hosted at Gannett's corporate headquarters in McLean, Virginia. During the course of the afternoon, several of the top media professionals, researchers and academics in the field took the stage to share the work they've been doing to better understand the trust relationship between readers and the media, and to discuss what we might do going forward to create a more comprehensive trust landscape.
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Last week, the Open Markets Institute, a Washington, D.C.–based think tank, hosted a discussion on the fate of journalism in the age of the duopoly titled, "Breaking the News: Free Speech & Democracy in the Age of Platform Monopoly." The conversation between government anti-trust officials, journalists, publishers, lawyers and subject-matter experts focused on the ongoing battle between publishers and platforms, and how the platforms have the power to both help and harm publishers.
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There are three rules for getting a good photo, according to Rising Star photojournalist Dorothy Edwards. "You want good light, good composition and a moment, some kind of thing happening, and that's where the storytelling really happens," she says. Dorothy is a photographer for the Naples Daily News, part of the USA TODAY network. She started in 2015 after graduating from Western Kentucky University.
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This summer, Margot Harris joins the public policy team as an intern. She is attending Columbia University, pursuing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction, she attended undergrad at Brown University with a degree in Sociology. Learn about her summer plans, future goals and interest in news media.
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Self-serve advertising sector is showing increases of 15% to 20% in multiple newspapers. “With consumer purchasing moving online, self-serve is increasingly an end user preference,” said Brian Gorman in an interview with LocalMediaInsider. iPublish platforms allow DIY sales, auto-ad building, admixes for print, Facebook, online and programmatic specific to each vertical.
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Bridget Lane supports real news from behind the scenes — and behind a screen. As a computer software developer at USA TODAY Network, she supports over 140 websites across the United States. She's always been interested in the sciences. In high school, she had dreams of working for NASA and completed two programs with them. However, when she attended George Mason, aerospace engineering was not offered as a major, so she went with the next-closest thing: computer engineering.
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TedX Talks
Journalism is a noble calling and the credibility of the profession is at stake. Today, there is weaponization of information and it is dividing us. Ann Curry passionately shares how people are yearning for journalism they can trust. Her Talk powerfully explains that truth leads to trust, which leads to understanding, understanding leads to humanity and humanity can unite us all.
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Digiday
Mark Thompson, CEO of The New York Times, used a speaking slot in Cannes to give his report card on platforms: Google is getting better, Twitter is a bit perky, Facebook is failing.
First, the good news: Google is coming up with the goods. The platform has listened and acted on the publisher's concerns, which has resulted in the lifting of Google’s first-click free policy last October, where it allowed three articles a day from subscriptions publishers to be open access.
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Editor & Publisher
Facebook's introduction this spring of an "About this Article" tag on news articles, in part linking to Wikipedia pages about the news organizations behind them, exposed the media's own problems with transparency.
The amount of information provided on the "About Us" pages of news websites can vary wildly, but is typically bare-bones and vague. That's if a reader can actually find it.
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The Washington Post
Based on the photographic evidence, living conditions inside government-run detention centers for immigrant children separated from their parents in south Texas look reasonably orderly and clean.
But there's a major catch: All of the photographs depicting life inside the facilities have been supplied by the government itself. There's been no independent documentation; federal officials, citing the children's privacy, have barred journalists from taking photographs or video when they've been permitted inside.
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Recode
Facebook found a new place to sell video ads: Inside Messenger, where some users will start to see autoplay video ads appear in their inbox right next to messages from friends and family.
Messenger first started selling ads inside Messenger 18 months ago, but they were static ads, not video. The benefit of video ads is that they're usually more expensive, which means they're more valuable to Facebook.
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Adweek
Brands and agencies looking to refine the ad experience on YouTube are in luck. The company has unveiled a new offering, Creative Suite, meant to give brands and agencies the tools and resources they need to create a "more delightful experience for the user" that is "more impactful for the advertiser," YouTube managing director of global solutions Debbie Weinstein explained.
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Adweek
In May 2018, Reddit overtook Facebook as the third most popular website in the U.S. This revelation closely followed their announcement of a redesign, the first in a decade. Reddit's newfound media presence has industry insiders hustling to develop effective strategies to tap into their engaged user base. In April 2018, the site reached 330 million monthly active users, which put it on par with Twitter.
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WAN-IFRA
"Audio is really exciting, and I think it is a technology and a medium that is here to stay and that will only create more opportunities in the next couple of years," Jessica Stahl, the Washington Post's Director of Audio, told delegates at the World News Media Congress in Portugal. "But it is not here to save our industry.
... This is a medium that goes into the mix of strategy that we are doing just like anything else."
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Reynolds Journalism Institute
For newsroom leaders already struggling to produce and monetize daily content, I understand how augmented reality tools might seem out of their reach.
Though tools from Google, Amazon and Apple can be daunting with their requirement of coding knowledge, there are tools that make it easy for those of us with small budgets, little to no coding experience and limited time.
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WAN-IFRA
Blockchain is undoubtedly the biggest tech buzzword used today. Across all industries people are talking about this innovative technology, but what are the opportunities for publishers? At WAN-IFRA's recent World News Media Congress, a session was dedicated to blockchain — and its growing impact in the news industry — featuring a panel of experts. They sought to demystify the complexity of blockchain and debated its USP in the media landscape.
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