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    Fact-checking “S-Town”: 5 good questions with Benjamin Phelan

    “S-Town,” the latest podcast from “Serial” and “This American Life,” is the entrancing story of the brilliant-but-tortured John B McLemore and his complicated life in [...]

    May 18, 2017
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    How young adults define ‘news’: 7 good questions with Data & Society’s Mary Madden

    Teenagers and young adults are challenging long-held assumptions about news consumption patterns. A new report from Data & Society explores how young adults use mobile [...]

    April 12, 2017
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    How for-profit newsrooms can adapt API’s nonprofit funding guidelines

    Earlier this year, API released two sets of guidelines on the ethics of funding nonprofit news, one set for philanthropic funders and one set for [...]

    April 6, 2017
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    Going for teens’ inboxes: 6 good questions with the Huffington Post’s director of growth and analytics Kiki Von Glinow

    The Huffington Post is targeting its youngest audience yet, girls from Generation Z. And HuffPost is going for a place you might not expect — [...]

    March 27, 2017
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    4 questions nonprofit newsrooms and funders have about their evolving relationships

    As journalism’s traditional business models continue to shift, more news organizations are turning to nonprofit and foundation support as a way to support their journalism. [...]

    March 15, 2017
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    Why we click on news stories

    For news organizations, clicks are tracked closely. They generate advertising revenue and help newsrooms to better understand audience interests. But what motivates news users to [...]

    March 14, 2017
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    Journalism driven by stakeholders: 9 good questions with Stakeholder Media Project’s Mark Lee Hunter

    More media organizations are being created and controlled by the people who are invested in the issues their organizations are covering, according to Mark Lee [...]

    February 16, 2017
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    Tired of talking about Facebook? Here’s what journalism needs to do to fight misinformation and fake news

    Way back in the spring of 2015  — long before false accusations of massive voter fraud and pizza-shop sex rings and before the Facebook fake-news beatdown [...]

    December 14, 2016
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    5 ways to build trust with your readers going into 2017

    Studies have shown that trust in the media is at an all-time low. Especially after a particularly contentious election season, building relationships with readers is [...]

    December 14, 2016
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    Measuring investigative journalism’s impact on society: 8 good questions with James T. Hamilton

    “The results of [investigative] reporting do not come cheaply, but they are a bargain to society,” James T. Hamilton writes in his new book Democracy’s [...]

    October 24, 2016
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