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The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands heard testimony today on the Fallen Journalists Memorial Act, H.R. 3465. The Act would authorize the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation (FJM Foundation) to establish a permanent memorial honoring the sacrifices of journalists who have died while performing jobs critical to keeping democracy accountable and functioning. Barbara Cochran, President of the FJM Foundation, testified before the Subcommittee and thanked members for their bipartisan support of the legislation.
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The Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation has provided four digital ads for news publishers to use on their websites to raise awareness of and drive support for the Fallen Journalists Memorial Act of 2019 and the importance of a memorial to honor journalists who gave their lives in pursuit of the truth, which underpins our democracy. If the Fallen Journalists Memorial Act is passed, the Act would authorize the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation raise private funds to build a monument to our lost colleagues on federal land in Washington, D.C.
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We have extended the deadline once more and will accept nominations for the John P. Murray Award for Excellence in Audience Development from Alliance member news organizations through Tuesday, December 31. The award will recognize three newsrooms that have demonstrated superior innovation and sophistication in understanding content strategy as part of audience development throughout the year. For more information on the award and how to submit your nomination, click on the link.
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Earlier this year, the News Media Alliance launched the Advertising Intelligence Center (AIC), an in-depth database of case studies provided by our members that highlight their successful advertising campaigns. The AIC allows our members to learn and be inspired from each other’s success and creativity. The Alliance is always on the lookout for new case studies to highlight and share with members in the AIC. A steady flow of case studies from our members ensures the AIC can continue to highlight the value of creative, targeted advertising campaigns for advertisers and news consumers. Here we’ve provided some examples of big wins from news publisher campaigns included in the AIC.
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Mark your calendar and register for our next adXchange on February 24-25, 2020 at the Embassy Suites in Fort Lauderdale, FL. adXchange provides a cost-and-time-saving opportunity for news media organizations and advertisers/agencies to set up private meetings to collaborate and discuss upcoming ads and initiatives. You must register to attend. Registration for Alliance members and participating advertisers/agencies is complimentary. Non-members may attend for a fee per person. Registration rates go up after Dec. 20. For more information and to register, click the link.
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Calling all newsrooms and journalists! To help demonstrate the positive impact local news has on communities to drive support for local news, we’re assembling an encyclopedia of impactful stories that demonstrates the critical work your organization is doing. We would like to hear from newsrooms, editors, journalists and others at your publication, those stories you have produced that have been the most impactful to the community. To learn more about the News Impact Project and to submit a story, click on the link. We look forward to showcasing the valuable work you’re doing in your communities!
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The Key Executives Mega-Conference — jointly sponsored by America’s Newspapers, Local Media Association and News Media Alliance — has grown into the largest newspaper industry gathering. Join more than 700 media executives February 17-19 in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Omni Fort Worth Hotel. The Mega-Conference will feature an outstanding program with a wide range of topics on key issues facing newspaper executives. Discounts available to first-time attendees and newspapers that bring additional team members. Register now — rates go up January 3.
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The Public Media Merger Project
We are entering a new era of journalism in which responsive, civically minded local newsrooms engage with their communities to provide news and information that matters.
The business practices that support this new role will not be what we've seen in the past in local news, particularly as local newspapers collapse. But there is evidence that these practices work — and can be sustainable in ways that bring newsrooms closer to the communities they serve.
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Digiday
With more news organizations soliciting donations from their readers, a growing number of them used Giving Tuesday as a peg for their end-of-year appeals.
On Tuesday, the Guardian U.S. published an op-ed by Rebecca Solnit, "Why I'm Supporting the Guardian This Giving Tuesday." Her post inviting readers to support the publication represents the U.K.-based news organization's first overt embrace of the unofficial holiday.
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Digiday
If original programming can help streaming services like Netflix and Hulu acquire and retain subscribers, why not publishers' broader subscription businesses, too? That's the goal for a trio of publishers — Architectural Digest, Barstool Sports and The New York Times — that are using shows they produce as a sweetener to both draw new subscribers and keep the ones they already have.
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Ad Age
If history teaches us anything about monopolies, duopolies or any other defined industry hierarchy, it's this: Nothing lasts forever. Just ask AOL. Or Napster. Or MySpace.
For Facebook and Google, that means their place in the digital advertising marketplace, however dominant, is far from inevitable. This year, the two increased their market share to about 60 percent combined.
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MediaPost
GroupM is forecasting U.S. ad growth next year of 4% to approximately $253 billion. That's underlying growth that excludes political advertising, which is currently projected to be about $10 billion. Including political would raise next year's growth rate to 7.1%
That's on top of underlying growth in the U.S. this year of 6.2% to $244 billion, marking the fourth consecutive year of solid mid-single-digit growth, per the GroupM forecast.
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Ad Age
A recently formed advertising group, Privacy For America, has released a new set of guidelines to help shape future legislation regarding consumer data collection, as the industry looks to have some say in the inevitable regulations that are coming out of Congress and states like California.
Privacy For America has issued a 41-page set of principles that it called a "framework" for data and privacy legislation.
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BBC News
Forbes and Business Insider are both well-known news sites. So is forbesbusinessinsider.com a new spin-off?
No. It has nothing to do with either Forbes or Business Insider.
In fact, it's a site that copies and pastes entire articles from other publishers and reposts them with very slight changes.
There are 350 million registered domain names on the internet. Experts say it's impossible to count how many are sham news sites.
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Poynter
Until recently, journalists were focused on the major platforms — newspapers, TV channels, radio stations and websites. The thinking was that if we built a great product, audiences would swarm to us, and we could sell ads against their attention.
Times changed. We were forced to learn how to reach audiences where they are. That's probably for the better for our audiences but for the worst for our business models.
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Nieman Lab
Audiences paying for print and digital news worldwide grew very slightly in 2019, according to WAN-IFRA's recently released 2019 World Press Trends report, with — no surprise here — that growth coming almost entirely from digital. Nonetheless, print in newspapers still dominates, accounting for 85 percent of their revenue worldwide (down from 89 percent last year).
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9to5Mac
Apple News is expanding its mail notifications with a new "Good Morning" daily newsletter. Previously, users could opt in to receive email alerts from Apple News about select featured stories. The company appears to be formalizing that into a regular daily newsletter.
Apple says it will bring top news, analysis and fascinating features every morning, collating the "best stories from the most trusted sources."
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