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The State of Technology in Global Newsrooms

What’s happening? In collaboration with Google News Initiative and Georgetown University, the international center for Journalists conducted research on the adoption of digital means by Journalists to counter misinformation. The research was conducted in 149 countries; the researchers received over 4100 responses from journalists and news managers. Why it […]
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As other local news outlets struggle, NPR affiliates are growing — and quickly

NPR Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg, center, listens as a source speaks outside the Supreme Court in 2018. NPR has added 1,000 journalists to its ranks. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) In my first interview with Nancy Barnes after she took over as NPR’s senior vice president for news, I thought […]
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Newsrooms need to learn to speak social media without an accent

News organizations face the reality that digital media started the transfer of power from newspaper editors and broadcast news directors to their formerly passive and dependent audiences. Mobile and social media sped the change because they empowered the audience to get nearly any information they wanted when they wanted […]
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How Southern California Public Radio uses live events to connect with communities

This case study on Southern California Public Radio is from the Wyncote Foundation’s 2019 Building Stronger Communities Through Media report . It is the ninth in a series on innovations in local journalism, public media and storytelling we’re republishing with their permission and the permission of the authors. How […]
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5 Lessons for Reporting in an Age of Disinformation

The ‘Trumpet of Amplification’ By Claire Wardle Despite endless headlines, reports and conferences on the topic of information disorder, the global news industry remains woefully unprepared to tackle the increasingly effective and dangerous tactics deployed by those intent on disrupting the public sphere. Journalists often write about the phenomenon […]
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What We Learned Through NewsMatch Can Help All of Local News

NewsMatch journalists in action: High Country News, Groundtruth Project, Texas Tribune, Public Source, CALMatters, Marshall Project There are almost-weekly reminders about the struggles facing local news. Last week the entire staff of the New Orleans Times-Picayune were laid off when the paper was sold to a competing paper. When […]
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One California newspaper’s route to survival is an innovative ‘membership plan’

(Photo by Ron Reason) IDYLLWILD, California – It’s been a tough year for the newspaper industry, with hundreds of jobs lost at large publishing companies like Buzzfeed , HuffPost and Gannett , whose ax falls particularly hard on some smaller U.S. markets already scraping by for decent news coverage. […]
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How a hyperlocal startup is “reclaiming and informing the narrative” of North Omaha

This case study on how NOISE (Omaha, Neb.) fosters community development through hyperlocal media is from the Wyncote Foundation’s 2019 Building Stronger Communities Through Media report . It is the first in a series on innovations in local journalism, public media and storytelling we’re republishing with their permission and […]
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5 trends that could save local news: A Q&A with Heidi Legg

Last month, leadership at The Vindicator in Youngstown, Ohio told employees that the 150-year-old newspaper of record for this once-booming steel town would be shuttering. Family owned since the late-1800s, The Vindicator couldn’t find a buyer. A few weeks from now, there will be no daily newspaper to cover […]
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PART 4: MEDIA CO-CREATION WITH ON-LINE COMMUNITIES AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Increasingly, the term ‘community’ refers to online audiences and participants in story experiences. In this section, part, we’ll examine emerging technologies, with their accompanying opportunities and ethical challenges. We conclude with an overview of journalism that aims to explore a more hybrid, fluid, notion of co-creation, and its relationship […]
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