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Today's decision by the European Commission to fine Google $5 billion for violations of antitrust laws represents a significant step in global recognition of the platform's dominance in the data, advertising and distribution markets.
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Rising Star winner Adam Harris is the staff writer at The Atlantic, covering education. He had a winding path to journalism. He always knew he wanted to do something he found important and necessary. "I was always interested in telling stories," he says. He freelanced for a while before finding his niche at The Chronicle for Higher Education, then he moved to The Atlantic this year. "It was kind of a natural fit; I had an interest in federal policy and black colleges," he said.
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Rising Star Georgi Kantchev discusses life at the Wall Street Journal and his experience covering Europe's five terror attacks last year. "You have to be respectful to the people who have been shattered, but then also you want to be careful to the readers and paint a picture."
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TCN is the web-based IVR and mobile communication dialing tool that hundreds of newspapers and call centers use to save money and boost circulation productivity.
Within minutes, you can interact with your subscribers with a simple call, text or email.
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According to the 2018 Reuters Digital News Report, changes in Facebook usage habits seem to be the cause for the decline of social media usage for news reporting in some countries, specifically the United States. The report states, "39 percent of people said they used Facebook as a source of news in 2018, down 9 percentage points from 2017. And if you look just at young people in the U.S., their use of Facebook for news is down by 20 percent compared to 2017."
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Every good news organization has some way of reaching its audience when they're on-the-go. There are tweets and push notifications and app updates. But there are also live social media news shows, streaming videos and daily podcasts. We want to celebrate all the innovation in the digital news space with our third annual streaming awards.
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Summer is really heating up. Get inspired by Alliance staff recommendations of the top books of summer (both for fun and for news media industry insights) and spend some time this week in a book.
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Archives dating back to 1851. Cooking. Crosswords. And now parenting. The New York Times, continuing its efforts to shift away from digital ad revenue to a subscription-based model, will be adding a subscription product for parents to its offerings in the upcoming year. A parenting category (chosen from 15 other potential products) was not necessarily the obvious pick. The Times does not have a robust archive of parenting-specific content to draw from — unlike the cooking and crossword products which boasted an extensive archive of content. Ultimately, though, a parenting product met four necessary criteria: market opportunity, potential to build a subscription business, unmet needs, and the Times' potential advantage in meeting that need.
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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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INMA
As the fake news crisis persists, we news publishers are hoping distributed platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat will prioritize trustworthy news content. However, with only minor improvements, the distributed platforms continue to be largely unresponsive to the wishes and needs of news publishers.
This was among the conclusions made when 55 media managers from 17 major news brands gathered in Berlin for the third-annual Distributed Content Summit hosted by Bild.
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Journalism.co.uk
Google's Digital News Initiative has supported 461 innovative projects since its launch three years ago and spent more than £83 million supporting media innovation.
As a fresh round of funding approaches — the next call for applications should open before the end of the year &mdsah; how can your project take advantage? Google has received more than 4,800 applications since it first started the fund, so how can your application stand out?
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For over 10 years, Site Impact’s Private Label Email Marketing solutions have provided hyper-targeted data and in-house technology for advertisers. MORE
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The Conversation
The man best known for founding the digital classified listing service Craigslist recently gave a New York City journalism school $20 million. His gift was big enough to prompt rebranding at what will now be called the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
Newmark's big gift made a big splash, but charitable gifts that support the media are pretty common.
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AdAge
Snapchat and Nielsen, doubling down on their partnership, are now offering marketers the ability to make targeted ad buys based on offline data, in similar fashion to other popular social media platforms.
A marketer can use Nielsen audience data, for instance, to target someone on Snapchat who purchased lipstick at a retail store offline. The offering provides some 30,000 segments and includes Nielsen Buyer Insights and Catalina Solutions.
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Adweek
Last winter, as the East Coast was being hammered by a series of blizzards, spirits vendor Pernod Ricard and its delivery service partner Minibar observed an intriguing data point.
The lower the thermometer drops, they noted, the more liquor home deliveries rise. So why not capitalize on all those snow-bound tipplers with a targeted ad campaign?
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Adweek
Instagram confirmed that it is testing a way for public accounts to remove followers, but the Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network would not provide further details.
Social and digital media consultant Matt Navarra shared a screenshot from Twitter user @blueasyraff in a tweet.
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Pew Research Center
Mobile devices have become one of the most common ways Americans get news, outpacing desktop or laptop computers. Roughly six-in-10 U.S. adults (58%) often get news on a mobile device, 19 percentage points higher than the 39% who often get news on a desktop or laptop computer, according to a Pew Research Center survey. The share of Americans who often get news on a mobile device is nearly triple the 21% who did so in 2013.
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Recode
BuzzFeed's Ben Smith was confused as hell and he wasn't going to take it anymore.
So while he's not exactly Howard Beale, the famously pugnacious editor of BuzzFeed pressed hard last week on global news partnerships head Campbell Brown to explain how the social media giant defines journalism and who practices it.
The focus of his ire was the presence of six conservative publications at a biannual meeting that Brown ran in New York with a group of editors and publishers Facebook works with.
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