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News Media Alliance President and CEO David Chavern yesterday called upon online content distribution platforms — specifically Google and Facebook — "to make the same commitments as publishers and modernize their platforms to help stem the flow of misinformation — a problem that is largely of their own making." Chavern, who leads the association of print and digital publishers of original news content, made his remarks while testifying at a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology hearing that addressed "Oversight of Federal Political Advertisement Laws and Regulations."
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Last year, we gave you news-worthy Halloween costumes you could slap together at the last minute. This year, we took it up a notch with a whole new round-up of classic, topical and easy Halloween costumes that will be the hit of your newsroom. 1. Fake News — 2017 is the year of Fake News, making it a popular and easy costume. What you'll need: Trench coat, ski mask, reporter's notebook, fedora, note card, red marker. Dress as your quintessential reporter, with a caveat.
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Last week, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) hosted the first-ever Digital Media North America conference in New York City, partnering with the News Media Alliance to bring insights about digital news trends from around the world to North American news organizations. During the two-day conference, digital-only and print-first publications shared information about trends in news, better practices for editorial and advertising, and why the reader should be put first. We've boiled the two-day event down to the five most important lessons for publishers
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The future of quality journalism requires that we find new and better ways to provide economic returns to news publishers. We view Facebook's announcement — as with the recent announcements by Google regarding support for subscription models — as a positive one and we strongly support any and all experiments to increase reader engagement and subscriptions. However, these initiatives must still demonstrate that they can effectively stimulate income flowing back to the publishers.
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Combing the Sunday papers for flyers and ads is a regular habit of many Americans. It's how people make their shopping lists for the week, decide on when to make big purchases and plan their meals. And the deals that lure readers to the advertisements within the papers' pages are good not only for consumers, but for advertisers, too. A study conducted by Michigan State University for the News Media Alliance about consumers' engagement with preprint advertisements found that there's a direct correlation between non-subscribers receiving the newspaper and how much they spend.
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On October 10, Wall Street Journal staff reporter Ayla Albayrak was wrongly convicted of terrorism charges in Turkey. The court sentenced her to two years and one month in prison in connection with a Wall Street Journal article published in 2015. The News Media Alliance condemns this sentence and supports the Wall Street Journal in the appeal. The Alliance believes in a free and robust press and will continue to champion the First Amendment for all members.
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Earlier this month, Google made a move many in the news industry have anticipated for years: the internet giant ended their first-click-free program that allowed users to read paywalled news items for free, if accessed through the search engine. The move comes only months after The Wall Street Journal pulled out of the program, declaring the program unfair to paid news outlets. Now, Google has agreed to work with news organizations that keep their content behind a paywall, and paid news sites are set to reap the benefits.
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By David Chavern, President & CEO, News Media Alliance — For Free Speech Week, I originally was going to write about the increasingly hostile political climate in the United States for reporters and all supporters of free speech. But I thought it might be more instructive to take a moment to talk about a historic U.S. ally who is reaching new lows in terms of its treatment of journalists. In fact, if we aren't exceedingly careful and vigilant, Turkey will serve as an example to us of what can happen to a society when politicians actually do go to try to destroy a free press.
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Reuters Institute
In this RISJ Factsheet by Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Lucas Graves, we analyze data from eight focus groups and a survey of online news users to understand audience perspectives on fake news. On the basis of focus group discussions and survey data from the first half of 2017 from the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain and Finland, we find the following.
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Poynter
A new report from the American Press Institute looks into newsrooms that have transformed physical spaces often while transforming digitally. "A Matter of Space: Designing newsrooms for new digital practice" looks at several legacy newsrooms, including The Dallas Morning News, The Kansas City Star and The Washington Post.
Some, like the Post, moved to new, smaller spaces. In Dallas, that process is happening now.
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Digiday
Facebook and Apple are squabbling, and publishers are caught in the middle.
Publishers were supposed to be the winners of Facebook's long-awaited plan to provide a path to sell subscriptions in its Instant Articles. But the test was delayed because Apple didn't want Facebook to let publishers sidestep its App Store and avoid giving Apple its customary 30 percent cut of in-app purchases.
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Columbia Journalism Review
The advertising landscape is undergoing its most sweeping transformation in years. Apple just released the new version of Safari, which prioritizes user privacy; an updated version of Google's Chrome, with a new ad filter, comes out in January; and new rules on data protection in the European Union take effect in May. These changes will give individuals more control over their data and rein in annoying and intrusive advertising.
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The New York Times
The headlines are eye-catching. Melania Trump is leaving the White House! Home renovation cable star Joanna Gaines has abandoned her HGTV show and husband Chip Gaines! Televangelist Joel Osteen is leaving his wife! None of the stories were true. Yet as recently as late last week, they were being promoted with prominent ads served by Google on PolitiFact and Snopes, fact-checking sites created precisely to dispel such falsehoods.
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MediaShift
Almost all the content and advertising on the internet is customized to each viewer. The impact of this kind of content distribution on the 2016 election is still being explored. But, we can certainly say that the campaigns used this to say different things to different people without having to worry about accuracy. Addressing this problem by having people screen ads is impractical and legally questionable.
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AdAge
Antsy publishers are starting to fear for their position within Facebook's powerful News Feed, now that tests have begun pushing their posts to an alternate timeline. On Monday, Facebook acknowledged it was testing a version of the social network overseas where publishers' articles appear in a river of content separate from the main News Feed, which would be reserved for messages by family and friends.
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MediaShift
There is a common, disparaging discourse surrounding the relevance of the pageviews metric. I've heard pageviews called everything from passé to obsolete. Those descriptions may hold true in some environments. But in your average newsroom, pageviews aren't passé — they're a priority.
I know this because over the past 10 months, for my doctoral research, I've talked about metrics with journalists, digital experts, data analysts, tech developers and sales people in six newsrooms.
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Recode
Pivot to video? Easy to say. Harder to do.
Enter Wibbitz, which wants to make making videos easy — by getting computers to make videos, or at least help make them.
Wibbitz makes software that lets publishers including Reuters, Time Inc. and Hearst churn out as many videos as they'd like, as fast as they'd like. Wibbitz, whose Israeli founders started the company six years ago, says its 400 clients now generate 20,000 clips a month.
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