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Every September, the agencies that handle Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests rush to close as many open requests as possible before the end of the fiscal year, flooding journalists' mail boxes with responses. And after chatting with journalism's most well-versed resource on FOIA requests, Jason Leopold, it seemed only appropriate to celebrate the work of other journalists who have utilized this great tool to bring important news to the public. We found many examples of great national and local FOIA reporting. While several of the stories rely on freedom of information requests to gather information, even more are about those laws and requests themselves.
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Some good news for newspapers: People still trust their local news outlets. At a time when trust in the national news media has been waning and people regularly decry any story as "fake news" that doesn't reflect their personal viewpoint, 41 percent of registered voters still believe their local news can be trusted. That figure comes from an August study by Morning Consult/Politico, conducted for the News Media Alliance, which polled a national sample of 1,997 registered voters.
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Florida International University
This survey, conducted by the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in the College of Communication, Architecture & the Arts at Florida International University, is designed to examine the roles and status of communication professionals in all of the major communication industries. The survey is being distributed to leading professional associations in newspaper, magazine, online and broadcast journalism; advertising, and public relations. The results of this study will be released in early 2018. If you have any questions about this survey, please contact Lillian A. Abreu at the Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication, at labreu@fiu.edu or 305-919-4065.
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By David Chavern — Do you want your elected officials performing surgery? Flying your plane? Teaching your child algebra? I am going to guess that your answer to these questions is an unequivocal no. Why? Those are all professions that require skills and training — just like journalism. Recently the Republican Governors Association launched an online publication, The Free Telegraph, which mirrors a media outlet and is branded as such — never admitting it is a product of an official political party committee.
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Each year, we recognize the accomplishments of newspaper carriers who are working hard to get the newspaper into the hands of our readers. This year, the newspaper industry has designated Saturday, October 7, 2017, as International Newspaper Carrier Day. The News Media Alliance has produced an ad for use on International Newspaper Carrier Day. We encourage members to run the ads in your publications to show support.
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A bi-partisan group of the House of Representatives on September 18 asked the International Trade Commission (ITC) to deny a petition filed by the North Pacific Paper Company (Norpac) that requests antidumping and/or countervailing duties of over 50 percent on newsprint imported from Canada. The bipartisan letter, led by Representatives Chuck Fleischmann (R-Chattanooga, TN) and Jamie Raskin (D-Rockville, MD), argued that a well-documented shift from printed newspapers to digital alternatives has caused a dramatic decline in newsprint consumption. And, that this trade dispute, brought on my one mill with 400 employees, could put at risk 175,000 jobs in the newspaper industry.
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Teaching journalism in 2017 presents a new stack of challenges: a 24/7 news cycle, ever-changing social media and now, Trump tweets. We caught up with Shazia Iftkhar, assistant professor at the University of Michigan Department of Communications, to talk about the new school year and teaching Trump in introductory journalism classes.
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Columbia Journalism Review
The majority of America's largest newspapers continue to employ digital subscription strategies that prioritize traffic, ad revenues, and promotion — despite the ongoing collapse of display ad rates.
Even as they've added paying Web subscribers by the hundreds of thousands, daily newspapers have decisively rejected an all-in approach featuring "hard" website paywalls that mimic their print business models.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Mic's website audience is tanking by millions of readers a month — and if it continues, it just may save online journalism.
That's because Mic is another example of the cautionary tale set by publications that pivot to video. The strategy, which came into vogue around May 2016, goes like this ...
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Recode
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg committed to hardening his company's defenses against countries like Russia that may have sought to spread misinformation and influence the outcome of elections in the United States and around the world.
In doing so, the social giant said it plans to turn over copies of political ads purchased by Russian sources ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Congress.
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Adweek
There were a lot of big numbers thrown around last week in the land of online branding. Here are seven data points that grabbed our attention.
1. The duopoly abides: Google and Facebook will account for 63 percent of all digital ad sales this year, according to eMarketer’s latest projections. In terms of raw numbers, that means $35 billion for Google and roughly $17.4 billion for Facebook.
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Ad Age
Over the last 20 years, the media landscape has rapidly evolved to meet the ever-changing demands of consumers and technology innovation. This has resulted in new opportunities for the advertising industry. It has also contributed to the great complexity that marketers face today.
It's amazing to think back at how much has changed in a relatively short period.
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Ad Age
Facebook will now let advertisers put digital ads in front of people who previously visited their real-life stores or those of their competitors.
Although companies like Google offer offline measurement that helps marketers figure out whether their online ads led to physical store purchases, Facebook is now serving ads to people based on their physical travels.
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CNN
The Washington Post is marking a milestone in its transition from being a local print newspaper to a national news website.
"Earlier this year, we crossed the 1 million mark for paid digital-only subscribers," the Post's publisher Fred Ryan revealed in an internal memo.
The news stood out to staffers because the Post had not disclosed the data before.
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The Verge
The tweets in your timeline are about to get super-sized. Twitter said that it has started testing 280-character tweets, doubling the previous character limit, in an effort to help users be more expressive. "Our research shows us that the character limit is a major cause of frustration for people tweeting in English," the company said in a blog post.
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MediaShift
Digital media outlets have embraced web analytics to increase their reach or find out more about their audience's preferences for news content. With some delay newswires — as business-to-business content wholesalers — have joined the party. Australian Associated Press and Associated Press have been the most outspoken proponents of this move toward measurement.
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