"The decline of local news isn’t just another industry that was disrupted by the rise of the internet, but it is having very insidious implications on the state of our democracy, and philanthropy is beginning to see its role in helping to rebuild it." — Sarabeth Berman, CEO of the American Journalism Project
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Rachyl Jones | Observer
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5/30/23
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Twitter has dropped out of a voluntary European Union agreement to combat online disinformation, a top EU official said Friday (May 26).
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Kelvin Chan | The Associated Press
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5/30/23
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An Iranian journalist went on trial behind closed doors on Monday on charges linked to her coverage of the funeral of a Kurdish-Iranian woman whose death in custody last year triggered months of unrest, her lawyer told ILNA news agency.
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Staff | Reuters
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5/30/23
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A conversation with Ab11y’s Charlie Turrell and Gareth Ford Williams.
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Emily Lytle and Laine Cibulskis | RJI
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5/30/23
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Die Zeit is a weekly German newspaper and among the most successful European publishers that has experimented with subscriptions as a revenue stream. Here’s how the company experimented with early retention strategies and fostered routines with its audience.
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Neha Gupta | WAN-IFRA
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5/30/23
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Meet the one-person team behind Antarctica's longest-running newspaper, the Antarctic Sun.
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Ben Mack | Esquire
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5/30/23
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Lawyers for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich have appealed a Moscow court’s decision to extend his pretrial detention until at least Aug. 30.
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Alan Cullison | The Wall Street Journal
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5/30/23
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Belarus’ Supreme Court has upheld an eight-year prison sentence handed to a prominent member of the country’s sizable Polish minority and a correspondent for a top newspaper in Poland.
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Yuras Karmanau | The Associated Press
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5/30/23
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Section One of this paper offers a five-point blueprint to address several current and emerging AI issues through public policy, law and regulation.
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Brad Smith | Microsoft
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5/26/23
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The Tow Center looked at how news organizations have been covering generative AI over the past six months.
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Jem Bartholomew and Dhrumil Mehta | CJR
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5/26/23
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Former President Trump is set to join Sean Hannity for a town hall event on Fox News next month, the network announced on Thursday.
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Julia Mueller | The Hill
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5/26/23
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Since courts implemented eFile North Carolina, around half of the state’s newly filed complaints have been withheld for a processing phase lasting one to three days or even longer.
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Nina Pullano | Courthouse News Service
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5/26/23
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Bloomberg celebrated the expansion of its New Voices initiative to Frankfurt with an event held at Bloomberg’s Frankfurt bureau on Thursday evening. Frankfurt is now the 15th New Voices city, joining London, New York, San Francisco, Dubai and many more.
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Press Release | Bloomberg
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5/26/23
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Here are a few fellowships currently open for applications.
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Elizabeth Aguilera | Association of Health Care Journalists
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5/26/23
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As it continues to grow, the Wisconsin Watch name will consistently be used to avoid confusion.
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Staff | Wisconsin Watch
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5/26/23
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The Freedom of the Press Foundation will soon launch the “Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy.”
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Trevor Timm | Freedom of the Press Foundation
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5/26/23
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The Fix summarized key points from two relevant sessions presented at the International Journalism Festival 2023 in Perugia — “Investigating the crimes of war” and “Documenting and memorializing war crimes in real-time.”
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Iryna Boiko | The Fix
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5/26/23
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The Interior Department concluded that U.S. Park Police officers exceeded the “minimum level of reasonable force” during a George Floyd protest in 2020.
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Emily Steel | The New York Times
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5/25/23
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The national firestorm that ignited last week over a Sonoma County transgender student-athlete is bullying, plain and simple, says Richard A. Green, executive editor of The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, California.
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Rick Green | The Press Democrat
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5/25/23
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Here’s how Mother Jones is fighting the trend — and how other outlets can too.
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Marla Jones-Newman | Mother Jones
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5/25/23
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