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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 ...
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What We’ve Learned About News Consumer Behavior: 5 Videos
Northwestern University’s Spiegel Research Center is conducting groundbreaking research using large data sets on consumer behavior. Spiegel’s study of 13 terabytes of data from the ...
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Chicago Becomes a Hotbed for News Collaboration Rather Than Competition
Chicago has long been known as a media battleground. While many cities are down to one daily newspaper — if that — Chicago has two, ...
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Salt Lake Tribune’s Editor Expects ‘a Lot of Newspapers’ to Explore Nonprofit Status
The Salt Lake Tribune announced in November that it had received Internal Revenue Service approval to become the nation’s first legacy newspaper to go fully ...
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The Arkansas Gamble: Can a Tablet and a Print Replica Rescue Local News?
Walter E. Hussman Jr., publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, is pioneering a bold strategy to transition readers from print to digital by taking away their ...
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News Outlets Should Build Customer Lifetime Value Into Subscription Strategy, Researchers Say
What should be news organizations’ top financial strategy? Growing advertising revenue? Growing subscriptions? Neither, say researchers at Northwestern University’s Spiegel Research Center, who believe there’s ...