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November is election time in America. Voters in many local municipalities will go to the polls soon to choose local public officials. Four states have statewide legislative elections, and three of those states will select a governor. For some, the presidential election next year is top of mind. But it is the breadth and depth of local elections in this country that truly astounds. Try and wrap your mind around the idea that there are more than 87,000 elective bodies filled with over half a million elected officeholders.
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Gannett now delivers digital newspaper content from the past directly to readers, allowing them to step back in time and experience the news dating as far back as the 1800s, without leaving the comfort of their homes.
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Earlier this month, NAA welcomed new President & CEO David Chavern. We asked David to share his thoughts on challenges and opportunities for the newspaper industry, as well as his perspective on innovation and the future of the newspaper media.
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The Telephone Consumer Protection Act is a consumer protection statute aimed at shielding a consumer's privacy by restricting telemarketing calls, junk faxes and the use of automated dialing equipment. NAA is engaged on this issue at the Federal Communications Commission and on Capitol Hill because we must ensure the ability of publishers to communicate with their subscribers and non-subscribers with a prior business relationship with the newspaper.
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The New York Times is collaborating with Google on a virtual reality project to launch The New York Times Magazine's new virtual reality film, "The Displaced." The film, about children uprooted by war, can be watched with cardboard viewers that are used with a smartphone.
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By David Chavern, NAA President & CEO: Our First Amendment right to free speech is the single most important tool we have to challenge the abuse of power. Through our individual actions and an independent, energetic free press, we have been given the ability to call to account those with political and economic power in our society. Without this right, there is no democracy or popular will — only tyranny.
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The Texas Tribune held its fifth annual Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas from Oct. 16-18. The event featured some of Texas' — and the nation's — political elite. Texans had the opportunity to listen in on 11 tracks with over 200 speakers, who discussed a wide range of political topics, including energy, environment, immigration, transportation, education and more.
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Vindicia offers subscription billing and recurring revenue solutions for media, publishers and content providers.
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Poynter
In this year of consolidation in the newspaper industry, Gannett, New Media Investment Group and Tribune Publishing have scooped up dozens of titles in the name of efficiency. That makes the family-owned Post and Courier of Charleston, S.C. an outlier — and proud to be one.
The Post and Courier has clearly been on a roll editorially, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in April with high impact coverage in 2014 of domestic violence and the weak South Carolina laws to stop it.
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Digiday
Bloomberg Media wants to further monetize trending news stories as well as readers who arrive on its sites from social media, across its Europe, Middle East and Asia markets.
Last week's IAB Upfronts saw publishers such as Bloomberg Media and the Guardian tout plans to unlock new audience data insights for advertisers.
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Press-One now provides automated voice analytics to detect key phrases used by your customers. Calls containing these phrases are flagged instantly for review. Great for stop-saves, product changes, isolating problems and more! MORE
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WAN-IFRA
In the future, we may remember 2015 as the year when content fragmentation hit the mainstream. Facebook Instant Articles (or Facebook IA in the interest of brevity), Snapchat Discover, Apple News, Twitter Moments, and Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) have hit the market within weeks or months of each other, making it abundantly clear that the battle for professional content is only just beginning.
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AdAge
Domestic digital advertising revenue surged 19% to $27.5 billion during the first six months of 2015, a landmark high for the industry since the Interactive Advertising Bureau began tracking the information nearly two decades ago.
Second-quarter internet ad revenue also rose by 22.5% to $14.3 billion, up from $11.7 billion from the first half of last year, according to a report released by the IAB and prepared by PwC.
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Second Street
Even though the season has started, newspapers still have an opportunity to generate significant revenue with football promotions. Advertisers are looking to reach the football demographic and newspapers are well positioned to deliver results by leveraging sweepstakes, quizzes, and ballots centered around professional, college, and high school football.
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AdWeek
Ad blocking has been the dominant topic of conversation across digital media for the last couple of months, and we still don't seem to have tired talking about it. Is the emergence of ad blockers the introduction of an invasive species or the catalyst for innovation? The truth, it turns out, might not be so binary.
In the early days of the Web, the rule for advertising was, "if it moves, it's interesting."
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Bloomberg
Twitter Inc. isn't wasting any time making money from its newest feature, called Moments.
The new product, which debuted two weeks ago as a way to track big events as they happen, got its first advertiser last weekend. Twitter will give advertisers a channel on Moments for 24 hours, where they can curate tweets, video and other content.
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Nieman Lab
For the past few months, the discussion of Facebook Instant Articles has far outpaced the actual number of Facebook Instant Articles — or the number of Facebook app users who saw them. Now that's changing: After several months of testing with a limited percentage of users, Facebook rolled out Instant Articles to all of its iPhone users last week.
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Financial Times
There was a time not long ago when the news business was a roaring economic success. Newspapers sold millions of copies, companies paid large sums to advertise in them and proprietors of successful titles made bags of money. The news hit the streets one day and was fish and chips wrapping the next. Everything was simple.
Then the internet came along and turned the industry on its head.
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