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After the election, what's next for journalism?
The media didn’t want to believe Donald Trump could win. So they looked the other way.
Journalists, it's time to get back to work. Here's to the return of the journalist as malcontent.
The forces that drove this election's media failure are likely to get worse. Journalists fear for their profession, and some, for their safety. After this election, journalists must take care of themselves.
Mark Zuckerberg is in denial about how Facebook is hurting our politics. After Trump's victory, even some in Silicon Valley worry that Facebook has grown too powerful.
Why botched election predictions don't herald the end of data journalism.
Ad executives brace for possible post-election ad spending slowdown.
Election shows it's time for a civic journalism rebirth.
When it comes to fact-checking, why do politicians get all the attention?
FLASHBACK: What Trump could (and couldn't) do to restrict press freedom if elected.
Gannett's bid to get even bigger could be revived
Tronc's chairman agrees that a 'different' deal with Gannett is possible following the collapse of talks to purchase the company that owns the L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and other major metros. Six reasons why Gannett’s plan to buy Tronc still makes sense.
Gannett's billion-dollar deal to buy Tronc put on hold. Gannett and Tronc shares tank as deal falls apart.
Gannett’s giving up on Tronc. So what will it buy next?
What will Ferro do now that Gannett's bid to buy Tronc is off? Now that the Gannett deal has collapsed, Tronc is rebooting.
Picking up the pieces of the broken Gannett–Tronc deal.
RELATED: Gannett will cut 2% of its workforce. Baltimore Sun journalists protest after Tronc denies them company-wide raise. GateHouse owner bucks plummeting revenue trend while Gannett stumbles. The slow death of the Cincinnati Enquirer. An open letter to the guy who figured out what’s wrong with my newspaper.
Print advertising falls off a cliff
Print advertising woes are getting worse. More wretched news for newspapers as advertising woes drive anxiety. The New York Times’ earnings report was ground zero for the trend.
Look out below: Cuts underway as advertising tumble accelerates. What can newspapers do in the face of falling print revenue? What does the great newspaper squeeze of 2016 mean for investigative journalism?
At the product and development level, newspapers failed at some basic digital blocking and tackling.
RELATED: Layoffs hit the Wall Street Journal. Guardian cuts costs but numbers ‘don’t add up.’ The New York Times thinks it can add a million more digital subscribers.
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What indie local news sites have that newspapers don't
Editor & Publisher magazine on what local independent online news sites can teach newspapers.
“Most newspapers today aren’t locally owned, and they don’t trust their rank-and-file workers to speak for the newspaper,” LION Publishers Interim Executive Director Matt DeRienzo said, noting that large organizations like Gannett and Digital First Media still want to pretend their reporters are faceless robots. Meanwhile, most hyperlocal reporters are working out of coffee shops by necessity, which allows them to offer greater access and accountability to their readers.
Corner Media ignites community change in Brooklyn
Reynolds Journalism Institute looks at LION member Liena Zagare's Corner Media sites in Brooklyn.
"What is it that attracts journalists to work for little money in such a local field of journalism? One of the key motivations, as described by a Corner Media Group reporter, is the appeal of being a community booster: someone who knows and champions the interests of the community. The goal is not just simply reporting on the neighborhood, which in Brooklyn could vary from 40,000 to more than 300,000 residents; the editors expressed the desire to ignite change in the neighborhood."
News About Local Independent Online News Sites
BILLY PENN: Developing models for digital local news.
IMPACT: Show your stakeholders the impact of your organization. Give them what they need to be your evangelists.
LAUNCHING: From problem to prototype in five weeks: Creating a journalism startup to serve my community.
LOS ANGELES: The 74 is getting into Spanish-language education reporting, starting in Los Angeles.
MARSHALL PROJECT: The Marshall Project releases its CMS.
PROPUBLICA: Politwoops gets a new public interest parent: ProPublica. The site is taking over some projects from Sunlight Labs.
SEATTLE: From East Coast to West Coast: The company behind Miami’s The New Tropic is expanding to Seattle.
SUSTAINABILITY: A recap of last month's "Sustain Local" journalism conference, which featured a number of LION members, sponsored by the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University.
TEXAS TRIBUNE: The Texas Tribune updates its premium political coverage for an email newsletter world.
Tools and Tips: Advertising and Revenue
AD BLOCKING: 40 percent of Financial Times readers stop ad-blocking when asked. Why local search is even more important in the age of ad blocking.
ADVERTISING: Digital ads to overtake traditional ads in U.S. local markets by 2018. The promise and peril of the custom banner ad. In the age of automation, why are there still so many media buyers? Google and Facebook are booming. Is the rest of the digital ad business sinking?
AMP: Google AMP gets mixed reviews from publishers.
APPLE: The difficulty of driving subscriptions through Apple News.
E-COMMERCE: Facebook isn’t making money when you shop on Facebook — yet. Three ways publishers are bringing sophistication to e-commerce. New York magazine turns a history of shopping recommendations into a new online revenue stream.
E-MAIL: There are at least eight promising business models for email newsletters. Successful paid content models start with an e-mail address, relationship. Editorial email newsletters The medium is not the only message. Lessons from email newsletters can apply to news distribution on other platforms, report shows. Publishers are using their newsletters as labs for new offerings.
EVENTS: Is the events business right for local media companies? Backchannel is using intimacy and audience participation to fuel its first push into live events.
FUNDRAISING: Eight easy steps to build your comprehensive year-end fundraising strategy. What’s the deal with Facebook Fundraisers?
IMPACT: Four things newsrooms can learn from nonprofits about impact.
OUTBRAIN: Slate and The New Yorker dump Outbrain and Taboola links (but way more publishers still use them).
PROGRAMMATIC: Internet mysteries: Why do the same ads keep showing up when I stream video?
REACH: Conde Nast International's digital chief: ‘You can’t win a race for reach.’
SEARCH: The increasing impact of reviews and Google+ (?!) on local SEO. Mobile search takes priority in Google’s latest development.
SPONSORED CONTENT: Lack of separation of editorial and commercial sides is a threat to proper execution of native advertising. Native ads will provide 25 percent of ad revenues by 2018, says media association.
Nonprofits will fund the Boston Globe’s newest music critic.
SUBSCRIPTIONS: There’s lots of free news online from public media, but it doesn’t seem to discourage paying for other news.
VIDEO: For now, TV broadcasters see Facebook Live as marketing. How publishers are making money from Facebook Live.
Tools and Tips: Journalism and Technology
ADDICTION: Trying to cover drug addiction? Don’t share photos of passed-out victims.
AUDIO: Two new tools at the cutting edge of audio sharing.
BOTS: How to build a chat bot without having to code. German chatbot startup tries to help publishers reach larger audiences. The AP wants to use machine learning to automate turning print stories into broadcast ones.
CANNABIS: Why cannabis coverage needs to be a serious beat.
DATA: Why newsrooms are expanding their data teams. How to use databases to untangle local food webs. Data can help publishers strike back. 'The story doesn't end with a spreadsheet' – Advice for journalists working with data.
DDoS ATTACKS: Why DDoS attacks matter for journalists.
DIVERSITY: How news organizations are starting to tackle the lack of diversity in sports journalism.
ENGAGEMENT: Avid consumers of local news are often also more engaged members of their local communities. Regular local voting, community attachment strongly linked to news habits. Media companies may no longer control distribution, but they do control trust. Journalists can regain public’s trust by reaffirming basic values. Ten ways to engage readers with alternative story forms.
FACEBOOK: Facebook launches online courses for journalists about (what else) using Facebook.
FAKE NEWS: Facebook’s trending algorithm can’t stop fake news, computer scientists say. The plague of fake news is getting worse -- here's how to protect yourself. Fact-checking doesn’t ‘backfire,’ new study suggests. How the Internet is loosening our grip on the truth. Facebook’s fake news problem won’t fix itself.
FARMING: Take national farming trends to the local level.
INEQUALITY: Covering inequality? Here are tips and tricks from the experts.
INVESTIGATIVE: For journalists investigating corruption, free tool offers millions of searchable documents. Measuring investigative journalism’s impact on society: Eight good questions with James T. Hamilton. How much is investigative journalism worth?
LIBEL: A daily’s loss in court may cause journalists to rethink how they communicate.
LIBRARIES: What the news media can learn from librarians.
METRICS: Meaningful newsroom metrics in three easy moves.
SCIENCE: Connecting science with society, Undark hopes to help elevate the standards for science journalism.
SECURITY: Is your password safe enough?
SOCIAL MEDIA: Study: Entertainment, general news lead shareable content. Report: 80% of BuzzFeed traffic driven by social media.
TERRORISM: How does journalism shape our response to terrorism? In Orlando, local news was key.
TRAUMA: Tending to journalists’ mental health is crucial for the business.
TWITTER: Twitter finally stops counting usernames against reply character limits in test.
VIDEO: Four opportunities for maximizing viewership of digital video content. Ten video formats to tell stories from your mobile phone.
Industry News
AT&T: Why the AT&T-Time Warner deal might fail. Here's why AT&T and Time Warner is worse than the AOL-Time Warner deal. What the AT&T and Time Warner deal will mean for you. Will the phone companies 'own' the Internet? The AT&T-Time Warner merger invites unfair competition and locks in our horrible access problems.
BIAS: Is media bias really rampant? Ask the man who studies it for a living.
CANADA: Postmedia to cut more jobs as net loss spikes.
CLICKBAIT: Pocket's next frontier: Solving the Internet's clickbait problem.
ELECTION: How the media covers the ‘deplorables.’ Empathetic journalism for the right. Hyperpartisan Facebook pages are publishing false and misleading information at an alarming rate. As threats worsen, here’s how to stay safe and sane while covering the presidential race. What the campaign press should not be neutral toward.
FACEBOOK: 'It's all powerful and it knows it:' Publishers reveal their biggest challenges with Facebook. In a policy change, Facebook will allow more newsworthy graphic content. Facebook says it still isn't a media company despite deciding what's newsworthy. 360 videos and photos are coming to Instant Articles. Facebook was letting advertisers exclude users by race. The policy was changed after an outcry about news coverage of the practice.
GROUPON: Groupon is buying LivingSocial, plans to downsize business to 15 markets from 27.
INSTAGRAM: Instagram appears to be testing live video.
LIBEL: News & Observer hit with $1.5 million libel verdict, $7.5 million in punitive damages.
LOCAL DOESN'T SCALE: A British Patch? Publisher launches 50 local digital news sites across UK and new title focusing on Brexit.
MINNEAPOLIS: At the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a newsroom that’s gone from surviving to thriving.
MOBILE: Mobile moves to majority share of Google's worldwide ad revenues. Facebook mobile ad revenues to reach near $30 billion next year. Foursquare’s Rosenblatt: ‘Location is the atomic unit of mobile.’ Mic is now sending iPhone push notifications with videos that play right on the lock screen.
PAYWALLS: Jeff Bezos isn't convinced that the Washington Post can survive on payment services. The Telegraph replaces its metered paywall, first launched in 2013, with a premium digital subscription.
SNAPCHAT: Snapchat might become a more reliable income source for publishers. Snapchat stops autoplay, marketers grapple with declining view counts.
TWITTER: How Twitter’s advertising is moving beyond 140 characters. Twitter’s troll problem by the numbers. What if Twitter’s future is becoming Facebook’s live media app? Twitter says it will update safety policies... after the election.
VERGE: As The Verge turns five, here’s how it’s thinking about building a news site for the distributed age.
WALL STREET JOURNAL: The Wall Street Journal offers buyouts to news employees, seeking 'substantial number.'
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