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Skillz for journalists
Good news for training in the newsroom. The Poynter Institute and the E.W. Scripps Co. today announced a long-term agreement that will provide customized training for staff members in the Scripps newspaper division. See the release. And this is but one component of a larger training agenda for Scripps newsrooms.
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Digital paywalls are the newspaper model now
2013 was the year when paywalls became the norm for newspapers. 70 percent of newspapers now have some sort of paywall (see pie chart on right), according to a survey by the Reynolds Journalism Institute. That’s up from 41 percent in 2011 and 47 percent in 2012. Consumers are still adjusting. Newspapers are not using…
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Discovering breaking news as it happens
Editors are safe for the moment, but this is an interesting experiment in news automation and an interesting way of determining what is “breaking news.” #BreakingNews candidate via @WikiLiveMon: https://t.co/hogETk8cLQ. Media gallery: pic.twitter.com/odsdl3fnhp — mediagalleries (@mediagalleries) March 27, 2014 While not ready for prime time now, I could see this becoming much better.