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Many news consumers in the United States may have no idea that some of the world’s best reporting on what is happening in authoritarian societies and fragile democracies comes from news …
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Michael J. Abramowitz | Nieman Reports
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6/29/20
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More than 100 regional newspaper publishers and broadcasters across Australia are set to gain funding through a federal government scheme to help media deal with “catastrophic” declines …
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Daniel Hurst | Guardian
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6/29/20
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On December 3, 2016, the morning after the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland caught fire, killing thirty-six people, the East Bay Times’s new executive editor, Neil Chase, instructed his staff to …
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Savannah Jacobson | CJR
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6/29/20
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The Tennessean is investigating how a paid advertisement from a fringe religious group was published on Sunday in violation of the newspaper’s long-established standards. The ad featured a bizarre, pseudo-religious “prophecy,” including the …
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Staff | Tennessean
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6/22/20
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The Associated Press changed its writing style guide Friday to capitalize the “b” in the term Black when referring to people in a racial, ethnic or cultural context, weighing in on a hotly debated issue. The change conveys “an essential and …
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Staff | Associated Press
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6/22/20
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After 42 years as the UK’s best-selling newspaper, the Sun has lost its title to the Daily Mail. The Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid had been the nation’s most popular newspaper since 1978, spawning such memorable splash headlines as “Freddie …
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Mark Sweney | Guardian
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6/22/20
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As protesters flooded streets across the country to decry racial inequality, police brutality and systemic racism after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, journalists were with them. Documenting the historic moment. Interviewing those who …
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Staff | USA Today
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6/19/20
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On Monday, President Trump’s long-deferred pick to head the U.S. Agency for Global Media, finally started work after a bruising, two-year Senate confirmation battle. By the end of Wednesday, Michael Pack had achieved a clean sweep of the top …
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Sarah Ellison | Washington Post
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6/19/20
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Apress watchdog called on Indian police Thursday to drop a criminal investigation into a journalist for her coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the prime minister’s parliamentary constituency. Authorities launched a criminal probe into Supriya …
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Amy Gunia | TIME
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6/19/20
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When the French journalist Sonia Dridi talks about her experience covering the past few weeks of protests against racism and police brutality in the United States, she often thinks back to another story she covered. “The scene, seeing everyone …
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Yasmeen Serhan | Atlantic
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6/19/20
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Experiences and discounts have been the most popular features of the news brand’s loyalty clubs and membership programmes. The COVID-related lockdowns forced changes in rewards. In May, INMA reviewed the value propositions of the top-50 news …
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Grzegorz Piechota | INMA
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6/19/20
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I sat at the same table every Friday, next to the upright piano and open mic area, drinking coffee while cops picked up breakfast sandwiches, city councilors met local activists over quinoa salads and residents guessed what time their bus would show …
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Catherine McGloin | Poynter
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6/19/20
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The Philadelphia COVID-19 Community Information Fund on Thursday announced it was awarding $750,000 in grants to 12 organizations to use news and information to empower vulnerable communities to make more informed decisions and support resiliency …
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Press Release | Lenfest Institute
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6/19/20
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I’ll never forget the day the publisher spotted me as I was returning to my desk after lunch. She dressed me down in the middle of the newsroom, with more than a few of my colleagues within earshot. She scolded me for a column I had written, upset …
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Issac J. Bailey | Nieman Reports
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6/19/20
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6/1/20
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5/1/20
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The Philadelphia Inquirer offered voluntary buyouts to 55 guild members in sales, Poynter learned via a memo on Friday. Another voluntary buyout offer was made to full-time newsroom employees 65 and over after some employees expressed interest in …
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Kristen Hare | Poynter
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4/24/20
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National newspapers could close unless the government finds a way to support the industry, according to the general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, who has said many outlets are facing financial ruin as a result of coronavirus. …
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Jim Waterson | Guardian
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4/17/20
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The Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News are to close and their staff made redundant, according to sources at the outlets, after their parent company ran out of money as the coronavirus pandemic devastates the media industry. While some news outlets …
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Jim Waterson | Guardian
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4/8/20
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4/1/20
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