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The Daily Dispatch is uniting the community by focusing on its youngest members in a new series called Student Spotlight.
The project began in August 2017 with the goal to recognize …
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Kristen Hare
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2/12/19
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Sunshine Day 2019 will mark the fifth annual awards program from the Sunshine Center recognizing individuals from across North Carolina whose work exemplifies the value we place on keeping citizens …
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2/11/19
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More than ever, journalists are faced with ethical dilemmas. They have to decide between exposing the truth in the face of graphic information. They are also responsible for combatting …
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Neil Brown
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2/8/19
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Data journalism might be the answer to sustainable journalism business models. A new project called Reporters and Data and Robots is taking data journalism and automation to a new level. RADAR is …
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Nicholas Diakopoulos
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1/31/19
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No matter the news organization or the frequency, newspaper prices have increased. When looking at how much prices have increased for large papers from 2008 to 2016, the increases have been …
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Joshua Benton
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1/29/19
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StarNews Media is back in downtown Wilmington after its 50-year hiatus. The staff was displaced out of its office when Hurricane Florence hit, and now the paper has a multi-year lease in its new …
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Hunter Ingram
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1/28/19
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Local news outlets are looking to niche publishing to provide better customer satisfaction. In-depth coverage about a specific topic can be a better alternative to the approach many newsrooms take: …
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Matt DeRienzo
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1/25/19
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Newspapers need to know their customers in order to better serve them and make them want to keep reading. Successful businesses have an in-depth understanding of their customers and who they are, …
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Ted Stasney
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1/24/19
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Digital First Media made an official proposal for the acquisition of Gannett Co., owner of USA TODAY and more than 100 local papers. Digital First Media, which is owned by Alden Global Capital, …
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Mike Snider
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1/15/19
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Many publishers use WordPress for their content management system, but researchers are looking at its sustainability. Now, WordPress is launching Newspack, a toolkit that aims to improve publication …
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Christine Schmidt
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1/14/19
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The media has been criticized for its 2016 election coverage and still faces backlash for its political coverage today. However, CJR has some strategies for how to cover the quickly approaching 2020 …
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Kyle Pope
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1/10/19
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Executive Director of Lion Publishers Matt DeRienzo has a strategy for newspapers that want to turn subscriptions and paid memberships into a main revenue source. His advice is to stop trying to …
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Matt DeRienzo
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1/7/19
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The Legislative Reporting Service run by the UNC School of Government has dropped its subscription fees and is now free. The service includes a daily digest of bills and legislative actions, as well …
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1/4/19
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News Media Alliance CEO David Chavern has an optimistic outlook for the media landscape in 2019, a year that he says will be pivotal for news publishers.
So what can the news industry look …
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David Chavern
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1/3/19
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Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, can grow your online audience, but it's hard to know what the best practices are for how to use it. It isn't a popular technique in the nonprofit news sector, but …
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Emily Roseman
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12/21/18
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Journalists have learned one way to restore trust in the media is to increase transparency in their work and letting the public know how they got the story. DocumentCloud, a new platform, is looking …
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Gina Masullo Chen
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12/21/18
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The holidays are a special time for families in North Carolina to gather and look ahead to the New Year with anticipation and enthusiasm. It’s also a time when we reflect on the past year including …
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Wit Tuttell
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12/18/18
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On Thursday Tribune Publishing ended negotiations with McClatchy to sell its newspaper company.
The newspaper owners were under months of negotiations before Tribune decided to end them. A …
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Robert Channick
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12/14/18
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Charlotte will become the hub of all 30 of McClatchy's newspaper design and copy editing departments. McClatchy is transitioning from a print-based news owner to a digital publisher, and this is one …
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Mark Anderson
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12/13/18
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With no shortage of free information on the internet, millions of Americans have decided they don't need to shell out for a subscription to their local newspaper. But new research suggests this …
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NPR
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12/12/18
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