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How Covid-19 Has Changed Beat Reporting
As the coronavirus spread across the country, local news outlets reacted to the economic disruption with pay cuts, layoffs and furloughs. They also made a ...
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Medill’s New Subscriber Index Will Help Local News Outlets Tie Readers to Revenue Index Includes a ‘What-If’ Tool Using Current Data to Predict Outcomes of Strategic Decisions
Northwestern University researchers have completed their prototype of a Medill Subscriber Engagement Index for digital news and expect to launch the innovative tool by the ...
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Digital Start-ups: Great Local News Hope or Disappointment?
As many legacy news outlets struggle to survive, industry analysts are looking to digital start-ups as a promising way to revive coverage of local news. ...
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Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan on ‘Ghosting the News’ ‘We Have to Save Journalism in Whatever Form That Is, Which May Have Nothing to Do With the Printed Page,’ says Medill Grad
Margaret Sullivan, media columnist for the Washington Post, is out with a new book, “Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy,” published ...
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Can Local News Outlets Ride the Wave of New COVID-19 Subscribers? ‘This Is a Moment of Reckoning’
Local news outlets are working hard to keep the digital subscribers they’ve gained from COVID-19 coverage, and they’re seeing encouraging signs that the newcomers are ...
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Reporters Navigate Remote-Work Challenges During Pandemic
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay moved into a new office last December. Editor-in-chief Ray Roa was on paternity leave while the other employees settled into an ...
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Television Is Top News Source During Pandemic, Illinois Poll Finds
During the pandemic, Illinois residents have gotten their news most often from local and national television rather than from newspapers or radio, according to a ...
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COVID-19 Accelerates Local News Trends, for Bad and Good As Financial Crisis Deepens, Newsrooms Making Quicker Shift From Print to Digital and From Dependency on Ad Dollars to Reliance on Reader Revenue
Before 2020 even started, we knew it was shaping up as a brutal year for journalism jobs as major chains were merging and cutting staff. ...
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Beyond Diversity: Journalists Say Ultimate Goal Is Inclusivity Racial Imbalance Remains a Problem in Newsroom Staffing, but Serving a Community Is More Than a Numbers Game
Sadé Carpenter, who recently left Chicago Tribune as the deputy editor of food and dining, walked up to the front of Chicago’s journalism town hall ...
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Medill Study Finds Preference for Female Voices and Local Accents
With podcasts and smart speakers on the rise, Northwestern professor Candy Lee wondered how consumer preferences in voices and accents might affect the news business. ...
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Local News Outlets Drop Paywalls for Pandemic Stories, but Gain Digital Subscribers Anyway
Even though many local news organizations have moved their COVID-19 stories outside their paywalls, several are seeing encouraging boosts in their digital subscriptions during the ...
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Illinois Bill Would Create Local Journalism Task Force Legislation Includes Medill School in Proposed Fact-Finding Effort
A former television broadcaster turned legislator has filed a bill in the Illinois General Assembly that would create a task force to explore the state’s ...
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Chicago Journalism Town Hall Tackles Tough Finances, Elusive Diversity
About 300 people attended a Chicago journalism town hall Sunday that was characterized by sharp comments about the search for financial stability and the need ...
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New Kansas City Newsroom on the Runway: ‘Start-ups Tend to Help Each Other’
As digital news start-ups show the ability to attract and keep audiences, they are paving the way for more such outlets to fill the gaps ...