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  1. Pinned Tweet
    28 Jul 2015

    Our daily email tells you all you need to know about the news business and how it’s changing. Want in?

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  2. 39 minutes ago

    The failed Canadian startup OpenFile was a bet on collaboration between journalists and their audience. What it didn't figure out was how to fund reader engagement so reporters could dedicate more time to reaching larger segments of their community

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    3 hours ago

    What makes membership work? of says: a focus on relationships vs. transactions. Transparency about financial needs. Accessible info. “No gimmicks or tricks.” At day at Montclair State University

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  4. 2 hours ago

    Everything starts with a fact-checking dashboard. We can’t see it, we only hear about it.

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    4 hours ago

    in this week's fake news column, stuff by

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  6. 3 hours ago

    “A place of clashing priorities, mistrust, and suspicion”: Guess what this refers to. (Hint: Facebook is involved.)

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    Apr 5

    Highlights of a sprawling Knight-funded study of local news: TV riding high in digital because of ample video, an endless political cycle and a heavy reliance on Facebook.

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    22 hours ago

    We shouldn’t underestimate local . In many smaller markets, it’s local TV stations’ websites — not newspapers’ sites — that are the dominant digital local news source.

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    22 hours ago

    So real. "Here’s a trustworthy rundown of what trusted trust-initiatives are trying to do to rebuild trust. Trust us." via

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    Apr 5

    Has been this way for many years, and newspaper folks are always surprised to see the numbers

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  11. Retweeted
    23 hours ago
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    a lot of their journalism is actually from local newspaper websites but their brand resonance gives them a lot more returning traffic each day because of larger brand salience piggybacking off the television presence

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    22 hours ago
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    I just moved from Houston (DMA 7) to much-smaller Corpus Christi (DMA 128) - where the difference is more obvious. "Local" paper is 98% USA Today content with some local stuff covered mostly by freelancers. TV web is the better option, but the coverage isn't what I'm used to :/

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  13. 22 hours ago

    The Gothamist backlash: Which side do you fall on?

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    Apr 4

    re GDPR: This seems like it will be super, super disruptive for the Guardian (h/t )

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    Apr 5

    I have had a hell of a time keeping track of all the various new trust/integrity initiatives in the post-2016 era, so used my editor's privilege to make make them clear for me. Now YOU THE READER can also benefit

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    Apr 5

    This report on the increasing importance of local TV news is a sort of vindication for the work of great reporters like my friend

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    Apr 5

    Journalism has a bunch of trust issues — and initiatives. Here's a guide I put together to detangle them (the initiatives, that is)

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  18. Apr 5

    Which of these is not a real thing? A. Trusting News B. The Trust Project C. News Integrity Initiative D. Trusted News Coalition E. Trust & News Initiative Answer here:

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  19. Apr 5

    Trust News Integrity Trusting Coalition Initiative Project: A guide to the many new similarly named journalism efforts

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  20. Apr 5

    "No other existing news medium appears to have more advantages right now than local TV news."

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  21. Apr 5

    The failed Canadian startup OpenFile was a bet on collaboration between journalists and their audience. What it didn't figure out was how to fund reader engagement so reporters could dedicate more time to reaching larger segments of their community

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