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When we first wrote about College Town, the Raleigh News & Observer student-run online section, it was just launching. Now after six months, we checked in with editor Pressley Baird to see how the site is doing. The website covers four universities within the North Carolina Research Triangle: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, North Carolina State University and North Carolina Central University. Baird says they are regularly publishing a story every weekday on a consistent schedule. She manages 15 student writers, surpassing her expectations.
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Next year's News Media Alliance annual mediaXchange event will take place in the Birthplace of Jazz, New Orleans, from April 30-May 3. As you make plans to attend mediaXchange, don't forget to have some fun while visiting this amazing culture and food capital! We've rounded up the nine must-see events, and it's no surprise Jazz Fest is at the top of the list. This music festival has been going on since 1970 and next year runs from April 28-May 7. More than 425,000 fans attended last year. Plan to extend your stay to get in on all the fun, and read on for eight more amazing things to do in the Big Easy. Only News Media Alliance members may attend mediaXchange. If you are not a member and are interested in membership, please contact Member Services at membership@newsmediaalliance.org.
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On Nov. 22, a federal judge in Texas provided a nationwide preliminary injunction preventing the Department of Labor from implementing its new overtime rule. The rule would have raised the salary threshold used to determine employees who are eligible for overtime from $23,600 annually to $47,476 annually, and established a mechanism for automatically increasing the threshold every three years. Judge Mazzant cited direct conflict with Congressional intent of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which clearly refers to workers' duties, not their salaries, in the exemption for the executive, administrative and professional employees. According to the court, since the rule is unlawful, the DOL also lacks authority under the FLSA to implement the automatic escalator.
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The News Media Alliance last week sent a white paper to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team outlining policy positions on regulations and existing laws that deter investment and limit growth in the news media industry. The Alliance continues to lead the news sector's efforts to protect the constitutional right to a free press. That objective also requires government policies that support a vibrant and growing news industry.
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The News Media Alliance is now accepting applications for its fourth annual Accelerator Pitch program at mediaXchange 2017, which will take place April 30–May 3 at the Marriott New Orleans. The Accelerator Pitch program provides the opportunity for media startups to pitch their businesses to the largest annual gathering of news media industry executives and their colleagues in North America. The Accelerator Pitch program is open to startup companies that have been founded within the last three years whose product or service helps meet newspaper and online news media companies' print, digital or advertising needs.
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Star Tribune Media Co. announced its launch plans for Star Tribune Magazine, a quarterly publication that will be delivered to more than 225,000 subscriber households. Star Tribune Magazine will be available in the 13-county Minneapolis–St. Paul metro area starting in April 2017. The idea started about a year ago. Steve Yaeger, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Star Tribune, says they noticed the Boston Globe was doing a 52-week magazine, and it spurred an internal conversation about whether there was a way for them to bring a magazine to life.
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Digiday
Jim VandeHei raised a lot of eyebrows at the Code Media Conference when he declared that subscriptions to his new venture, Axios, would be pricey to the tune of $10,000 a year. "When I talk about subscriptions, I'm not talking New York Times subscriptions," VandeHei said. "I'm talking high end."
VandeHei and Axios are not alone in betting they can fetch big money for subscriptions — at least ones that can be corporate expenses.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Second-generation newsman Joe Smyth quietly did something extraordinary 25 years ago — he essentially gave away his family's chain of small community newspapers.
Smyth, now 75, said he was trying to protect the newspapers from the prevailing winds of large corporate ownership — as well as from the future decisions of his six children. So he set up a nonprofit to own the chain.
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Digiday
As print revenue continues to shrink, legacy publishers are facing the question (again) of how to deploy their (also shrinking) staffs.
In the early days of the web, print publishers had digital operations that were separate from their print teams, and often considered second-class; understandable, considering most of their money was and is still being made on print. Over time, most newsrooms integrated their print and digital operations.
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Adweek
As tech giants continue their push to speed up load times for advertising and publishers across the mobile web, early numbers from one of them seem to show that faster ads really do work better.
According to research released by Google and Teads, the video tech company, mobile publishers using Google's AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) video inventory perform better than those that stick with the traditional mobile web.
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Advertising Age
Global digital advertising is expected to top TV in 2017 for the first time, according to IPG Mediabrands' Magna.
The agency expects digital-based ad sales to become the No. 1 media category next year, reaching a market share of 40% and pulling in $202 billion worldwide. In comparison, linear TV ad sales will bring in $186 billion next year and have a 36% market share.
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The Media Briefing
The digital advertising industry has a big problem; one which creates a perverse incentive to churn out articles at a ridiculous rate, promoting quantity at the expense of overall quality. That needs to change.
That one big problem is really a thick knot of other little problems, all entwined and making it harder to unravel altogether. Over on the Monday Note, Frederic Filloux is in the middle of grappling with one of those issues.
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Nieman Lab
"The ambition of having 10 million digital subscribers is possible for us," New York Times CEO Mark Thompson said at the annual UBS Global Media Conference in New York City. While that's still a long way away — the Times had about 1.6 million digital subscribers as of September, counting its crosswords product — we can see the overall progress that the Times is making on its 2020 strategy plan, goosed along by the now-two-year-old Innovation Report.
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BuzzFeed News
Facebook emerged during the U.S. election as a central political and news source, but also a hub for hoaxes, propaganda and outright fake news — an issue that brought wide criticism and concern from figures reportedly including President Barack Obama.
But its leading U.S. competitor, Snap (formerly Snapchat), has managed to sidestep the issue. Snap now boasts 150 million daily users, roughly 10 million more than Twitter.
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Columbia Journalism Review
At this year's annual meeting of the Online News Association in Denver, many of the 2,000 attendees and delegates crowded into the opening keynote address. In the middle of the most charged U.S. election in living memory, at a time when the relevance and role of the news media were under intense scrutiny, the assembled newsroom operatives were not coming to hear a leading editor or garlanded correspondent give insights on the upcoming election or the state of the world.
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Business Insider
Facebook is working on a new feature that will showcase lists of curated content from publishers directly in the News Feed, according to two people familiar with the project and internal documentation seen by Business Insider.
The feature is called Collections and functions similarly to Snapchat's Discover section, which showcases news stories, listicles, videos and other content submitted by handpicked media partners.
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Facebook
Across the country, local news publishers and broadcasters are finding that the quick load times and immersive storytelling features of Instant Articles help readers engage with their content more than ever before. Whether it's two-year old digital upstart Billy Penn, TEGNA Media, which owns and services 46 television stations nationwide, or Gray Television, a company that started as an Albany newspaper in 1897, local publishers believe regional content is uniquely suited for Facebook.
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