For two decades now, daily newsrooms have been becoming digital. Now, finally into 2017, some of them are threatening to actually be digital, some twenty-two years after Nicholas Negroponte’s …
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Ken Doctor
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2/15/17
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Think you're not vulnerable? A hacker is selling a database supposedly containing 83,000 compromised accounts from UPI.com, the website of the 110-year-old American news agency, United Press …
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2/15/17
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Spend a day clicking back and forth between online news and other stuff and it’s not that surprising that you might not remember what you read where. A study out Thursday from the Pew Research …
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Laura Hazard Owen for Nieman Lab
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2/14/17
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The New York Times is joining Snapchat’s Discover service. “From Monday through Friday, the Times will create a daily edition for Snapchat users in the U.S. and Canada that is based on …
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Venture Beat, Feb, 2, 2017
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2/6/17
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Amazon released its Q4 earnings report last week. Despite missing revenue estimates, the e-commerce giant still hit $3.78 billion - and much of that was due to products that deliver information for a …
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2/6/17
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The Dallas Morning News will outsource the design and layout of its print edition to GateHouse Media and cut around 20 jobs from its 50-person print team. Five other positions in the newsroom have …
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2/1/17
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Wave after wave of digital innovation has introduced a new set of influences on the public’s news habits. Social media, messaging apps, texts and email provide a constant stream of news from …
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BY AMY MITCHELL, JEFFREY GOTTFRIED, MICHAEL BARTHEL AND ELISA SHEARER (Journalism.org)
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1/30/17
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McClatchy has named a new president and chief executive officer, appointing entrepreneur and former journalist Craig Forman to replace Pat Talamantes as the Sacramento media company seeks to ramp up …
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1/26/17
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The Standard Media Index estimates that US ad spending in December 2016 was virtually flat, with less than a percentage point increase over December 2015. However, for the year as a whole, ad …
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1/25/17
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Nine major newspaper publishers including McClatchy, Gatehouse and BH Media Group -- have bought into Chicago-based content aggregator Aggrego. Under Aggrego, they have formed Headlines Network, a …
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Ken Doctor
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1/23/17
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The Times-News, Burlington, has announced plans to move its press operations to Fayetteville as parent company GateHouse Media consolidates printing for its North Carolina newspapers. Beginning …
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1/20/17
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With digital advertising on track to comprise the lion’s share of advertising dollars, programmatic advertising will continue to gain prominence in the digital media-buying space. Here are six …
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Rusty Coates, MediaPost News
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1/19/17
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Carl E. Esposito has been named president of Adams Publishing Group – Tennessee/North Carolina (formerly Jones Media), adding to his responsibilities as publisher of The Daily Times in …
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1/18/17
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Coliln Campbell of the News & Oberver in Raleigh reports that reporterers for the conservative Carolina Journal (an NCPA member) said they've been prevented from covering Gov. Roy Cooper's …
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Colin Campbell, News & Observer
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1/13/17
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Looking for a sample letter asking for camera access to court hearings? Look no further. NCPA General Counsel Amanda Martin of SMVT has prepared the following letter for members to …
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Amanda Martin
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1/12/17
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Walter M. Wick, an inductee in the Arizona Newspaper Association Hall of Fame and Publisher Emeritus of the Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review, died Christmas morning at his home in …
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12/29/16
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Twenty-sixteen was the year The Washington Post came of age — again. In its audience growth, in the ambitiousness of its journalism, in its impact on the American conversation, the Post became …
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Ken Doctor
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12/28/16
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New Jersey lawmakers are delaying a vote until 2017 on a bill that would no longer require government agencies to publish legal notices in newspapers, instead allowing the agencies to publish the notices on their own websites...
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12/21/16
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McClatchy, which owns the Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh News & Observer is purchasing the Durham Herald-Sun from Paxton...
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12/20/16
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Ever hear the phrase “print is dead”? Well if you check with almost 170 million Americans, they’d tell you that nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, a recent Nielsen Scarborough study found that more than 169 million adults in the U.S. read a newspaper in a month—whether it be in print, on a website or via mobile app. In total, newspapers reach 69% of the U.S. population in a given month.
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12/19/16
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