Redactions hamstring AIM Photonics emails search
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Seven months ago, when two factions of local leaders were fighting over the AIM Photonics headquarters, the Democrat and Chronicle wanted to get to the bottom of the scuffle.
Both sides spoke in pleasantries when the cameras were turned on and microphones were in their face, but week after week a new chapter in the brouhaha came to light. It was such a noticeable back-and-forth that it even worried Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Midway through the bickering, the Democrat and Chronicle filed a public records request with SUNY Poly (the state agency with the lead role in AIM Photonics). We were hoping the emails would shed light on why there was so much infighting. We were hoping the emails would give us a sense for why the Sibley Building was chosen over Legacy Tower. That never happened. It took university officials more than six months to supply the documents, but once they did, the results were uneventful. Most of the 933 pages of emails that were pulled were fully redacted, except for the sender, receiver and email subject line.
In a response to the Democrat and Chronicle, the public records keeper laid out reasons why most of the pages were blocked from view. More
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5 best practices from Gannett playbook drive advertising sales excellence
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The most successful teams using the Gannett sales playbook excel beyond set goals, start their quarters with strength, leverage all resources, and recruit top talent.Every media organisation is trying to understand what drives sales performance. At Gannett, we have developed our world-class sales playbook as our guide on this journey. Our playbook lays out the expectations, responsibilities, and tools that guide our sales organisation forward. A couple key tools we live and die by are our sales standards and business KPIs. 
Our standards set the expectations for our account executives, sales managers, vice presidents, and presidents. The standards include sales activity and pipeline management on the account executive level. They include performance management, one-on-one meetings, and goal setting for our leaders. The standards are our roadmap for our sales staff to understand what guides our activity to results.
Our business KPIs are the six key measurements of success we know will drive our business forward. By measuring things like percentage of accounts doing digital, sales rep activity, and number of products that are part of a media solution, we can benchmark on the account executive and individual property level to understand what drives revenue growth.
At Gannett, we have been spending a lot of time understanding how all of these tools are impacting our business. Through this process, it has become apparent there are clear best practices from sales organizations that are seeing success. More
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The new Ida B. Wells fellowship is looking for investigative reporters of color
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 The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund has launched an investigative fellowship for journalists of color. The one-year Ida B. Wells Fellowship will go to four journalists and offer $10,000 each, travel and reporting costs and the chance to work with an Investigative Fund editor. "The Ida B. Wells Fellowship addresses these imbalances by identifying promising reporters of color, and other reporters from diverse backgrounds, who could benefit from editorial support and mentorship and who have the potential to help diversify the field."
Applications are due by Monday, April 18.
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