Category: News
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Turkish government jails hundreds of journalists, shuts down 170 TV and newspaper companies
If you work in journalism, be thankful you’re not working in Turkey. Journalism there is under attack at unprecedented levels. The government has forced the closure of more than 170 broadcasters, newspapers, magazine and media-related companies. Courts have ordered censorship of more than 30 news websites. The government has revokes…
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Don’t be in a hurry to get that big job
I had success early in my career. It put me on a fast track to management and I wanted more. After several years of quick, upward movement within my industry, I started to get frustrated when I couldn’t make that big jump to upper-level management and felt like I got…
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Were the Presidential polls really wrong – or was it just the way they were interpreted?
Pollsters have gotten a lot of grief over getting the election results wrong. There’s reason to criticize, but I think some people are placing blame when it’s not as clear cut as they might think. First, it appears that although Trump won the electoral college, Clinton won the popular vote. …
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Should internet providers be held liable when its users illegally download content?
“In this copyright action, the putative owners of more than 1,400 musical composition copyrights seek to hold Cox Communications, Inc. and Cox Com, LLC (collectively, “Cox”) contributorily and vicariously liable for alleged copyright infringement taking place over its high-speed internet service.” With those words, the court’s opinion in the case…
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Civil Rights lawsuit targets Facebook for race targeting ad options
UPDATED 11.7.2016: Three people have fled a class action lawsuit claiming they looked at Facebook for housing and jobs and that the ad targeting options Facebook allows violate the Fair Housing Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Mediapost). “Facebook has operated and is operating an advertising platform … that publishes,…
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Google News adds Fact Checking to top stories
In the world of social media and online aggregation, the one thing that is most rare is truth. Every day I come across stories and posts that stretch the truth or obliterate it completely. I believe it’s a big part of why the trust in media in general has plummeted…
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Majority don’t trust media, but one source does better than all the others
We’ve all heard that people don’t trust the media anymore. Heck, I’m in the media and I view everything through a skeptic’s lens these days. Through it all though, one media source continues to do better than all the others:
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Journalists get some help in battle over public records
It’s nice to see both parties working together on something, but it does happen. Both the House and Senate passed the FOIA Improvement Act and President Obama signed it into law. Now we’ll see if it makes any difference. The bill is designed to “boost government responsiveness” to Freedom of…
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Confidence in newspapers, TV news hits all-time lows
The folks at Gallup have been surveying everything about American society for decades. One advantage to that is tracking how people think about key issues over time. This June, when they asked about people’s confidence in newspapers, the numbers hit an all-time low. Television News wasn’t far behind, ranking just…
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Warren Buffett on the state of the newspaper industry
Investor Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns more than 30 small and medium-sized newspapers. Buffett has long proclaimed his love for newspapers and his hope for the industry. But in an article by Rem Rieder in USA TODAY, he sounds a little disheartened. “We haven’t cracked the code yet” –…
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Where do people get their news? Social media beats every medium except one
With the fast adoption rate of internet-connected smart phones, you would expect the number of people accessing news on mobile to rise substantially. Well, it did. In a Knight Foundation research study done by Nielsen, 89% of the U.S. adult mobile population access news on mobile devices.
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Will people still read long-form news on tiny cell phone screens?
With more and more traffic going to mobile, specifically smart phones, every day, is there a future for long form journalism on line? That’s one of the questions a recent Pew Research Center study tried to answer. Researchers looked at 125 million cellphone sessions accessing 74,840 articles encompassing 30 news…
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