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The five engagement changes your newsroom can adopt right now: #RJIEngaged
Just days removed from an invigorating discussion on the state of engagement in media, Dissecting Engagement attendees are buzzing about strategic content deployment strategies necessary to win greater connectivity with users. The purpose of the conference was to tackle recurring engagement issues, and to break new ground on solutions to confounding user disconnects. Here are five important takeaways from the conference, which was held at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute: Story
Potter listening tour of community newspapers underway now
Walt Potter, who works with the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute to explore the future of community newspapers, is visiting newspapers in Missouri this month and next as part of what's known informally as The Potter Listening Tour.
The tour name is inspired by trips politicians sometimes take to visit potential voters, ostensibly to learn their stories and how to help them. Potter's tour, however, is strictly nonpolitical and focused on the needs of community newspapers. Story
FollowTheMoney Train(ing)
Time and money are always in short supply for journalists. The National Institute on Money in State Politics is pairing with the Knight Foundation to offer a little of both to 20 journalists wanting a closer look at the role of money in politics.
During the all-expenses-paid FollowTheMoney Train(ing) seminar, we will bring reporters from U.S. news organizations, both large and small, to the University of Montana-Missoula, for a hands-on training Aug. 12-14, 2015, and teach them how to use our Ask Anything website and others for computer-assisted reporting. In turn, we require these reporters to return to their news organizations and show others how to Follow The Money in state politics. Story
April 2, 2015 Jim Lockwood, staff writer for The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA, is the winner of the 2015 Public Notice Journalism award. Lockwood is recognized for his deft incorporation of public notice information into his coverage of local government. Story St. Charles is NNA's convention headquarters this year Mark your calendar now and plan to join the National Newspaper Association in St. Charles, MO, Oct. 1-3, 2015, for its 129th Annual Convention and Trade Show. The committee endorsed the theme, "Show Me the Future of Newspapers." Story World News Media Conference is Coming to Washington, D.C. in June The Congress and Editors Forum - the annual global summit meetings of the world's press - have been held annually since 1948, including five times in the United States: twice before in Washington, in 1970 and 1996, and in New York (1960), Las Vegas (1979) and New Orleans (1989). The 2015 events will be organized in cooperation with the Newspaper Association of America. Story WHY STRENGTHENING THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT IS SO IMPORTANT President Obama has routinely promised greater transparency within the federal government. Now, Congress is making strides towards achieving this critical goal. The House of Representatives and Senate are currently considering nearly identical bills to strengthen the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which provides the general public, including journalists, with access to federal government records. This legislation has received broad support across media organizations, including the Sunshine in Government Initiative, a coalition of which the Newspaper Association of America is a member. And here's why: Story Newspapers' Digital Audience At Record High, Mobile-Only Readers Soar Newspapers continue to make big strides online, with the combined digital audience for U.S. newspapers reaching a record 173 million in January 2015, according to comScore data cited by the Newspaper Association of America. Story Newsonomics: Are local newspapers the taxi cabs of the Uber age?
Ken Doctor finds a useful analogy between the taxicab/Uber war and the newspaper business, asserting that papers too closely follow the cab model compared to the more frictionless disruptor Uber. How are papers like taxis? Low-level mobile access, he argues, along with no national access point and an underwhelming value proposition. Story
Production: The Power of Print Still Prevails
It's less exciting than a hot new app and won't be a topic for your next newspaper revolutionizing webinar, but newsprint continues to be one of the top three expenses for most newspaper companies, and it's worth another look. It is a fertile area for expense reduction but also for innovation. Story
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