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As part of its commitment to a robust free press, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press surveyed 2,000 American voters and conducted four focus groups in late 2017. They sought to quantify public perceptions of press freedom and threats against the press. They conducted the research before the attacks on the Capital Gazette in Annapolis in June 2018, an event that RCFP felt gave their work more significance. Overall, the research found that the U.S. population views press freedom much more positively than those who advocate for protecting the press.
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This year, the newspaper industry has designated Saturday, October 13 as International Newspaper Carrier Day, a salute to the hundreds of thousands of newspaper carriers who deliver the news to Americans every week. The News Media Alliance has produced its annual ad for you to run in your print publications to thank them. Click here to download the ad.
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Journalists seeking fresh, fast and thoughtful insight from the nation's foremost historians can now consult a database of experts assembled by the Organization of American Historians (OAH). The idea for the database sprung up after the 2016 elections, says OAH executive director Katherine Finley. OAH began to get a lot of calls about the issues posed regarding immigration, women's rights and confederate monuments, among others. "It was journalists wanting to talk to one of our historians to put the issue in historical perspective," says Finley. Unfortunately, she explained, a lot of these calls or requests would come in with a tight deadline, and opportunities would be missed.
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Sarah Krouse didn't mean to get into journalism. She was looking to make money and found an ad on Craigslist for a D.C. Real Estate Blog. Now, she's a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. She started her path as an English major, but admits, "I'm nosey, so I think that's the main starting point." She began taking journalism courses and loved the thrill of writing on assignment. She recounts one assignment where the class watched a fake press conference and had 20 minutes to write a story. "The pressure of that really appealed to me," she says.
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The Detroit Free Press has garnered attention for its hip and snarky Twitter account. It turned heads with its coverage of Aretha Franklin's funeral, memes to promote voting in the primary and cow puns. However, it's not just fun and games. The Free Press' Twitter account made headlines during the Larry Nassar sentencing, when it tweeted each survivor’s name in a stream of more than 150 tweets as the hearing was playing out, which led to a "THANK YOU" image and later a Free Press front page. They strike the perfect balance between lambasting the Lions' terrible start to the season and somberly covering breaking news.
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Just about everyone has a memory of buying a copy of the print newspaper on a memorable date, like the Chicago Cubs' landmark, "hundred-year-curse" breaking World Series win in 2016. And looking back at the newspaper from a specific day in history, such as our birthday or anniversary, is like opening a time capsule and remembering what the world was like at that important moment in our lives. Subatomic Digital takes those moments and creates unique, personalized gifts and collectors' items from them. Subatomic Digital didn't realize the revenue growth potential of their products for news publishers when they launched their business in the early 2000s.
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Rob Gindes started in journalism writing columns at his student newspaper. Now he's at USA TODAY, but you won't see his byline anytime soon. Instead, he's behind the scenes as the manager of software development. After earning his degree in Journalism at the University of Maryland, Rob found himself writing product descriptions for a small company. The director of IT noticed he had an aptitude for the technological side. When the director moved to Gannett, he brought Rob with him. His team works across the hundred-plus Gannett media properties to make whole-scale improvements to hosting.
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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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Rachel Sadon didn't study journalism in college. Now, as the Editor in Chief of DCist, she looks back on her undergraduate career and laughs. "I wrote a couple play reviews, but that was it. I decided to give it a go after graduation." She started as an intern at an Alt Weekly in San Francisco after graduating from Georgetown University. "It was less of an 'I know I want to be a journalist,' and more of 'I love news, I love reading and writing. This is something I should try.'" She then interned at a tech magazine before coming back to Washington, D.C. for a position covering Latin America. She thought she wanted to do something in international journalism. Instead, she found local news.
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As the school year ramps up once again, it's a good time to focus on one of the most important subjects students at all levels can study: media literacy. With fake news and distrust of the media making it harder for many people to know what to believe, there is ample need for news literacy lessons targeted at each and every student in America, from elementary-aged kids to university coeds.
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Behind Local News via Medium
It may not always feel like it, but there are plenty of reasons to be cheerful when it comes to journalism increasing living in a mobile world.
If 2018 is to be remembered for anything in digital journalism, it'll be for the lesson that publishers should never again rely too heavily on one source for audience — and that the future surely has to involve greater emphasis on direct relationships with readers.
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INMA
The constant upheaval in news media is taxing on all concerned. Seismic shifts in technology and audience expectations make it challenging to establish an operating rhythm across a publisher's business.
For digital subscriptions publishers, this challenge is arguably felt sharpest on the frontline — by staff in the newsrooms developing and disseminating content. Constant change means goal posts change rapidly for professionals up and down a roster.
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Nieman Lab
In the blink of a digital era, The Washington Post's Arc publishing platform has sprinted from an experiment to a full-on strategic business.
Arc is now used by more than 30 clients operating more than 100 sites on four continents. It's not the industry standard, but it's not too early to call it an industry standard. But its ambitions are still nowhere near met. Now the Post is moving Arc into a new phase.
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Adweek
While the move to a self-serve advertising platform in June 2017 sparked a rise in the number of advertisers on Snapchat, it also resulted in lower ad prices on the platform, according to the latest forecast from research outfit eMarketer.
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AdAge
The race is on to provide brands with software that paints a complete picture of their customers and what they want, sometimes before they even know it. It may sound like CMO fan fiction, but cloud computing service providers such as Salesforce, Adobe, SAP, Amazon and Microsoft are all hoping to make it a reality, sometimes spending billions in the process to perhaps achieve that goal.
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The New Yorker
Last month, the writer Julius Sharpe posted the following exquisitely relatable sentiment: "Whenever someone stops tweeting, I feel like Ben Affleck going to Matt Damon's house at the end of 'Good Will Hunting.' So happy for them." So why hasn't Sharpe done a runner, like Matt Damon lighting out for the territory? And why, more to the point, haven't I? The obvious answer is that social media is an addiction. The first argument in Jaron Lanier's recent book, "Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now," is that the nexus of consumer technologies and submerged algorithms, which forms so large a part of contemporary reality, is deliberately engineered to get us hooked.
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Journalism.co.uk
Facebook use for news has been declining for a while.
One of the reasons is that people are more aware of the social platform's poor record on spreading misinformation. However, a recent research study has found that other concerns, such as loss of privacy and fear of backlash when expressing views online are even more powerful causes of the decline.
The new report by Kantar Media found that publishers actually benefit from the turn away from Facebook.
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The Verge
Google is announcing changes to its search product, tied in part to the 20th anniversary of the company. The biggest announcement is that Google is rebranding its news feed — that list of items that appears below the default search bar in the Google mobile app and when you swipe left from the home screen on Android — as "Discover." It will now be on the Google homepage on all mobile browsers.
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Poynter
Podcasts are the future.
Podcasts aren't the whole future.
Podcasts are hit or miss.
Wait, there's another shiny object!
The announcement that BuzzFeed would be discontinuing most of its podcasts and firing its in-house audio team was the latest discordant note in a fast-growing medium. BuzzFeed's move followed Panoply's announced exit from podcast-making and reinforced the latest flavor for digital sites: Making content deals with Hollywood.
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