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The U.S. newspaper industry is in a battle that, if successfully waged, will mean the salvation of a business that has educated and informed readers for hundreds of years.
Win, and the industry’s economic fortunes are assured.
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If you want to get better at social media, data journalism, mobile video or other digital skills, I hope you’ll take three to five minutes to answer my survey by June 27.
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Objectivity is an ethos built on the “shall nots” rather than the things that journalists might stand for. Objectivity says, in essence, that journalists are not human.
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AdKiosks is a new digital ad platform that will allow a consumer – while visiting a website -- to browse an in-ad catalog and purchase an item from inside the ad without leaving the webpage.
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"The central fear, as Eli Pariser has put it, is that 'news-filtering algorithms narrow what we know.' This, at least, is the theory."
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"I'm keeping in mind that there are actually people reading these stories who are relying on us for information."
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Ready to start your own newsletter, or thinking about tweaking your existing one(s)? Check out the Crosscut/RJI Opt In tool to optimize your efforts. https://goo.gl/edy5gV
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Share Tweet Contrast VR, Al Jazeera Media Network’s immersive studio, has completed its first VR documentary, I Am Rohingya. Thousands of refugees call the crowded slums of the Kutupalong refugee camp—located in Cox Bazaaar, Bangladesh—home. Unable to return to their native countries, the refugees face unimaginable circumstances while living in a state of limbo in …
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We tend to think of the continent as static and unchanging, but most of its ice is in constant motion, crawling downhill towards the sea.
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Check out this "stereographic 360 video that they crafted into four beautiful VR films."
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Most of the time putting a VR in front of VR journalism is quite a stretch. Understandably so. Who has the time and resources to make truly interactive journalistic experiences? Enter the browser…
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A new study of internet users in Spain shows that those who trust “the media” less are more willing to pay for news online.
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A new system by University of California, Santa Barbara researchers Yasamin Mostofi and Chitra R. Karanam uses two drones, a massive Wi-Fi antenna, and a..
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I Informed You Thusly: Apple Accelerates AI For Marketers - 06/08/2017
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While written for marketers, Apple's move has terrific potential for all media, including news. Consider: "Apple introduced Core ML, the toolkit for developers to use to build machine learning AI capabilities into apps, and ARKit, the toolkit for developers to build augmented reality into apps." Read this item for more on these two toolkits and let your imagination go :-)
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With Facebook constantly evolving and introducing new features, your video marketing strategy has to evolve too.
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Still scratching your head over Facebook videos? You might start with these suggestions. |
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The Honolulu Civil Beat’s weekly Facebook Live broadcast is an ongoing experiment for the two-person team behind it as they try out new technology, locations and formats.
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How is VICE tailoring its video storytelling for social platforms?
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How might automatic detection of crowd density alert journalists to news events?
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Newsletter optimizer Opt In allows newsrooms to improve newsletters or create one from scratch | RJIAfter more than a year of research, Crosscut Public Media, in partnership with the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, is thrilled to announce the release of our much-anticipated digital tool: Opt In, the newsletter optimizer.
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The Reuters Institute's annual report on digital news contains some surprises.
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Get the newly released report by DeviceAtlas focusing on the state of the mobile web in Q1 2017. Learn about the latest trends in mobile.
Brian Steffens's insight:
"... the largest news websites load time is around 10.5 seconds on average. At the same time, users expect websites to load on mobile in 3 seconds." Check out RJI Fellow Barrett Golding's 3- part series "Need for Speed"
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Samsung is said to be developing a new ultra-high-definition OLED panel for its standalone gear VR headset.
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It took six months of tests to refine how to turn a flyby social media reader into one willing to register for access to two free articles.
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The news moves so quickly these days that a podcast published on Thursday might not be relevant on Monday. But it’s hard to tell which news or political podcasts have the latest information just by…
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If you are a reporter at one of McClatchy’s 31 papers, you will have this meeting sometime in the next year, or you may have already: You will be asked to join one of your editors and a membe…
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Is The Era Of The Big Idea Dead? - 06/20/2017
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"The mindset to "fail fast" is valuable, but not seen much in real life as companies are too risk-adverse,..."
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The Death Of Sears, The Edge Of Chaos - 06/13/2017
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I'm wondering if we should look at the news industry through this Edge of Chaos lens. Guess I'll have to buy the book and read it to find out. |
