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#FollowLocalJournalists. That’s the hashtag on a campaign that Twitter is launching today to encourage its users to do just that. According to Sara Fischer, of Axios , in addition to social-media activity, the campaign is running full-page ads in local papers owned by Gannett (including the Detroit Free Press […]
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As discussions on how to help save local news continue, new bills and ideas have come to the fore. Independent newspapers are coalescing around the Local Journalism Sustainability Act which proposes direct subsidies (in the form of tax credits) for news subscribers, local journalists and small business advertisers. Sweden […]
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A new Reuters Institute report finds that editorial standards and journalistic practices may be less important for trust in news than audience impressions about brand reputations and the look and feel of how information is presented. What do people really mean when they say they do not trust the […]
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Article content THE CONVERSATION This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Disclosure information is available on the original site. Author: Jaigris Hodson, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Royal Roads University Public relations and journalism exist […]
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Downtown historic Livingston, Alabama, buildings, including the location for the Sumter County Record Journal, on June 5, 2020. (Shutterstock) “Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit,” wrote Henry Adams. So it is for the news business today. It is fashionable in some quarters to say local journalism is […]
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When news organizations face cuts, opinion editors and writers are some of the first on the chopping block: Their work can be replaced by that of national syndicated columnists, saving precious dollars. But new research suggests that the long-term effects of that decision may be detrimental to local news […]
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Report Highlights After a year of battering, newsrooms must focus on steps to recovery. Here is a short list of actions to rebuild and reconceive journalism that recognizes our changed world. Tell us any progress you’ve already made on any of these topics, and what questions you have. These […]
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When the Waterbury Record ceased publication at the end of March, Waterbury, Vermont, was on its way to becoming another news desert. At the time, Lisa Scagliotti—a longtime Waterbury resident who used to work as managing editor of two of the Record ’s sister weeklies—was running a journalism internship […]
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Mahoning Matters and The Longmont Leader pivoting to further sustainability Photo by Javier Allegue Barros on Unsplash When we kicked off The Compass Experiment 18 months ago, we knew our mission was a tough one. We set out to create local, independent news websites that can become financially self-sustaining. […]
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