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Registration for the first edition of WAN-IFRA's North American Digital Media Awards closes TODAY! This is the last chance to show your best work and benchmark it with the globe's best, as the winners will compete in WAN-IFRA’s World Digital Media Awards, the industry's only truly global digital media competition. Companies that register today still have one more week to upload their projects.
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In 2011, the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism released a study on the state of the media. Jeffrey Cole, director of the Annenberg's Center for the Digital Future, issued 10 predictions for the futures of news media, including saying print would be gone in five years. I'm happy to report he was wrong.
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Bay Area News Group's journalists are teaming up with neighborhood social networking site Nextdoor to deliver local news in a new way while engaging communities in valuable conversations. The three regional daily news organizations — The Mercury News, East Bay Times and Marin Independent Journal — are collaborating with Nextdoor to distribute and discuss stories that are relevant to neighbors in specific communities.
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We hope you have enjoyed reading about the 2017 Rising Stars this summer. This group of bright, driven individuals represents the bright future of our industry. Check out the full list and their stories. Keep an eye out this winter for the nomination form for our 2018 Rising Star awards.
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Are you taking advantage of your News Media Alliance membership? We offer many great, free services to our members. Set up a profile today to begin taking part in our webinars, post to our job board and join discussions on industry best practices in our exclusive online member forum. View this infographic on key member benefits and instructions for setting up your profile to start taking advantage.
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Eric Falquero has his dream job — he discovered it while in college searching on idealist.org for an internship. He went to work one summer at Street Sense, a street newspaper in Washington, D.C. Now, he's the editor. The paper was created to be sold by people experiencing homelessness or who have experienced homelessness in the past. "It always feels like there's more to be done, but always that what you're doing is worthwhile," he says.
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Leigha Hornstra is trying to see the future. She wants to know what predicts human behavior, what events are coming and how to intervene. She doesn't have a superpower or crystal ball. Instead, she has data. The Rising Star is the business intelligence manager at CMG Atlanta.
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Bloomberg
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is developing new tools designed to boost subscriptions for news publishers. It follows a similar olive branch from Facebook Inc. to an industry that has seen the digital behemoths take over the online advertising market.
Google's latest foray arrives on three fronts. The first is a revamp of its feature, called "first click free," that allows readers to access articles from subscription publications through search.
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Columbia Journalism Review
There were lots of good reasons we shouldn't have started PolitiFact.
We were out of our league. The St. Petersburg Times was a regional paper with a good reputation, but we didn't know much about fact-checking or developing new products in a digital age.
I knew nothing about building a website. My first diagram of the site was a poster board with pasted stories and arrows drawn with a Sharpie.
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Neiman Lab
"People say you don't value journalism because you're not paying for the model, but I think the issue was they weren't offered a model that resonated in the right way."
That's the premise on which Alex Clark has been building his journalism revenue startup Press Patron. It's his attempt to bridge the paywalls and subscriptions of audience-supported journalism to encourage readers to pay what they want for news on a particular website.
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The Verge
Medium plans to start letting more and more authors publish paywalled articles. And to determine how they get paid, the blogging platform has selected a fairly unorthodox method: claps, which are, basically, Medium's equivalent of a Like.
A couple weeks ago, Medium replaced its "recommend" feature — a little heart button at the end of each article — with a "clap" button that you can click as many times as you want.
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Adweek
Foursquare made its buzzy launch at the 2009 South by Southwest as a check-in app allowing users to share their current location with their friends. Even though the app faded in popularity over time, the New York-based firm still spends plenty of time focused on its consumer-facing apps. However, watching Foursquare's move into the business-to-business world has been particularly fascinating.
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IAB
The Interactive Advertising Bureau has released the "IAB Podcast Playbook," the organization's first-ever buyer's guide for podcast advertising, which provides insights into audience demographics, listener behaviors, creative treatments, ad formats, delivery and targeting, and ad effectiveness measurement. Its release is timed to prepare brands and agencies for the IAB Podcast Upfront, slated for Sept. 7 in New York City.
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Journalism.co.uk
"In the next three to four years we are going to see an exponential explosion on several different fronts that are going to have massive impact on both the smartphone and your daily lives," said Glen Mulcahy, head of innovation, RTÉ Tech, at the latest Mojo (mobile journalism) Meetup in London on Aug. 16.
Mulcahy warned news organizations not to see technology as linear, but as a quickly evolving medium that will change workflows and production on a wider scale.
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Advertising Age
Tweens and teens are bailing on Facebook, opting instead for younger platforms like Snapchat and Instagram, eMarketer said in its mobile forecast.
Overall, Facebook's domestic userbase will grow to 173 million people in 2017, a 2.4% increase year-over-year. Now here's the rub: Facebook is seeing "higher usage among older Americans," but lower usage among those aged 12 to 17. That age group, eMarketer predicts, will fall 3.4% to 14.5 million people.
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Poynter
A common complaint from publishers who use Facebook is that every story looks the same. Whether it's from CNN, The New York Times or BuzzFeed, they all have the same basic elements: Photo, headline, blurb and source. That can be a problem, especially for newsrooms that want to set themselves apart from the scourge of fake news (read: all of them). Now, Facebook is rolling out a tweak that helps news organizations distinguish themselves.
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Recode
Time for another round of "pivoting to video" chatter, promoted by yet another story about a digital publisher "pivoting to video" by laying off people who don't make video.
In this case it's Mic, a millennial-focused (of course) startup that pre-wrote its own take on the story a week ago via a guest post on this very site. For a much more bracing view on The Great Video Pivot, I suggest this thread from Josh Marshall, who is very, very down on video.
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