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    Good video content: What’s working for news publishers, what isn’t

    Media scholars note that new media imitates its predecessor before evolving into its own distinct form. Early newsreels imitated movies. The first television news shows [...]

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    Building a news organization’s capacity for video

    Despite the differences among the many organizations producing digital video, a consensus appears to be forming around three organizational best practices. They include: Create clarity [...]

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    Digital video strategy checklist for publishers

    Drawing from the best practices detailed in this Strategy Study, here is a checklist of factors to help you tell if your news organization is [...]

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    Fact checking anonymous sources: 5 good questions with Ken Williams of San Diego Gay & Lesbian News

    The San Diego businessman was looking for funding for his tech startup – not particularly unusual in California. But when A. Latham Staples began dropping [...]

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    How best to move forward after newsroom layoffs

    The New York Times in December. USA Today in September. Newsroom layoffs, buyouts, and other forms of staff reduction have a near-drumbeat quality. Responding to [...]

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    Fact checking a sensitive story: 6 good questions with News Leader editor William Ramsey

    Earlier this month, on the same day Rolling Stone magazine issued an apology for errors in a jarring story about campus rape, a small newspaper [...]

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    When the world’s fact-checkers team up: 5 good questions with Alexios Mantzarlis of Italy’s Pagella Politica

    During the G20 Summit in Australia in November, fact-checking organizations from the United States and six other countries, as well as FactCheckEU, collaborated in fact [...]

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    API’s fact-checking project awarded grants from Hewlett, Rita Allen foundations

    The American Press Institute has received grants totaling $200,000 for additional support of API’s political fact-checking and accountability journalism program. The program began in early [...]

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    The types of stories and comments that promote comment-section engagement

    Want more comments? Look at how you write articles on your site. Articles that describe why they matter to specific groups of people generate more [...]

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    When aspiring politicians venture into journalism: 5 good questions with Andrew Pieper

    What happens when students with an eye on careers as politicians and government officials enter the world of journalism? This semester, students in political science [...]

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