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Earlier this year, Howard Shelton was shot on the job. He is a carrier for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. The 60-year-old was delivering to customers on his route when his car was stolen and he was shot. His customers set up a GoFundMe to help with his expenses while out of work. It was the first time in 20 years Shelton missed work. Dedicated men and women like Shelton deliver the newspaper — and with it, key information about their local community — to their customers every day.
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Karri Peifer can recommend restaurants like a fortune-teller reading a palm — all she needs is a single one-on-one interaction to make the best recommendation. "And I do. And literally no one has ever acted on it," she says. Karri is a Deputy Editor at the Richmond Times-Dispatch and in charge of Richmond Dish. We caught up with her to talk about the newsletter and food journalism in this edition of Alliance 5 Answers.
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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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Earlier this year, Facebook announced its decision to downgrade news content in users' newsfeeds and display more posts from friends and family. However, the change reversed a course that the social network had been on for years — providing users with a wide variety of news sources and directing traffic to news publishers. Notwithstanding Facebook's justifications for the change, some commentators believe that Facebook simply concluded that news was more of a burden than a benefit for the social media company.
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Keeping up with the news can be overwhelming, especially with the 24-hour news cycle. In fact, we have so much access to news that, according to Pew, as many as seven in 10 Americans are suffering from "news fatigue." This news overload isn't all bad, however; it has forced our industry to do more to keep readers' attention. And we're all getting more creative in how we tell stories. One of the more entertaining additions to the news landscape recently has been Limericking, a Twitter account that shares important news through — you guessed it — limericks.
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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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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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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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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 Washington Post
The Washington Post Magazine relaunched its print and digital product, introducing new features, a redesign of the print magazine and a new, bold digital template.
"The magazine has seen enormous digital growth over the past year, as our long-form storytelling has drawn in more readers," said Richard Just, editor of The Post Magazine. "With this redesign, we are aiming to bring more journalistic creativity to the magazine's front section and to create a look—both in print and online — that is adventurous and elegant."
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Columbia Journalism Review
Will Wright, a journalist at the Lexington Herald-Leader, knows a lot about the water in eastern Kentucky. How it's gathered from local tributaries and reservoirs, how it's treated and how it's transported to businesses and homes. This year, Wright reported extensively on the failing infrastructure of one county's water district, on the West Virginia border, including an incident in January that left more than 3,000 people without access to water for days.
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The Correspondent via Medium
As reader revenue becomes increasingly central to media business models, we're continuing our five-year tradition of sharing what we've learned about running a reader-funded news organization.
In 2013, we launched De Correspondent in The Netherlands with the help of some 19,000 founding members who backed our world-record breaking crowdfunding campaign. Since then, we've grown to an online journalism platform with more than 60,000 paying members.
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Nieman Lab
"It's one of the smartest, most clever startups I've ever, ever, ever seen."
That was how Amy Webb lauded Honeycomb, a new blockchain startup, at this year's ONA conference during her annual tech trends presentation. She highlighted two groups of special guests — one being the leadership of Civil, another (but very different in scope) blockchain startup that we've written about, and the other represented by cofounder Orlando Watson.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Unless you're a web geek, you might not be that familiar with Google AMP. Short for "Accelerated Mobile Pages," it's a webpage standard developed by Google to speed up load-time on mobile devices by stripping out a lot of the bits (including a lot of advertising gimmicks) that tend to clog things up.
At first blush, it sounds like a great idea. But media companies have complained that Google controls the standard, which feeds into their larger concern about how much influence the web giant has, especially over digital advertising.
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Tow Center for Digital Journalism
More than a quarter century after the creation of the World Wide Web, nine in 10 Americans get at least some news online. But in many ways, local news publishing is still adapting to the internet as a news medium. For many publishers, the internet is like an ill-fitting suit: functional, but not made for them.
On the whole, newspapers, broadcasters and digital-native publishers hold a few things in common: Most are online, serve advertising and have a Facebook profile.
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CNBC
Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong advocated for a change in how people consume news on social media, calling misinformation and how it's spread the "cancer of our time."
"The short attention span we're creating in this millennium is actually very dangerous," said Soon-Shiong, the new owner of the Los Angeles Times. "It's the unintended consequences of social media."
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Open Signal
Eleven of the 69 countries we analyzed earned a Very Good rating on OpenSignal's video experience scale, meaning mobile video loaded quickly and rarely stalled even at higher resolutions. But even among those elite nations there is still room for improvement. No country achieved the highest video experience rating of Excellent.
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Poynter
How much misinformation made the rounds on Twitter during the French presidential election last year? Possibly not a lot.
That's according to a study conducted by the Politoscope project at the Institute of Complex Systems of Paris Île-de-France, which analyzed the interaction between Twitter accounts. The report looked at 60 million exchanges from more than 2.4 million users.
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