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    When journalists get their info from social media, audiences find the reports less credible

    Press conferences, interviews, telephone calls — these are the traditional ways in which journalists source their stories. Today, however, many more options are available. From [...]

    September 12, 2016
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    As news orgs drop comment sections, data shows users don’t think they’re that important

    NPR announced this week that it would discontinue story-page comments on Aug. 23, in favor of engaging with its readers in other spaces, such as [...]

    August 19, 2016
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    How to avoid 10 common mistakes in data reporting

    After getting your hands on a data set, the hardest part of incorporating data analysis into your beat is getting started — and avoiding beginners’ [...]

    August 9, 2016
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    Outsourced copy-editing doesn’t necessarily mean increased corrections

    Newspapers have explored a variety of options to keep costs down, but one possibility —  outsourced copy-editing — comes with a substantial fear that the [...]

    July 20, 2016
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    Bringing diversity to the news industry: 5 good questions with Outlier Media’s Sarah Alvarez

    When it comes to diversity in news organizations, Sarah Alvarez is taking action. The Stanford JSK Journalism Fellow runs her own news organization, Outlier Media, [...]

    July 18, 2016
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    The fact is, fact-checking can be better

    In our newsletter, “The Week in Fact-Checking,” we like to highlight the best fact checks we’ve seen around the world. Frankly, we’d like to honor [...]

    July 6, 2016
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    4 kinds of stories you’re doing wrong without data

    Incorporating data into the daily newsroom grind can feel overwhelming, especially for smaller publications that may need to train writers on how to use data [...]

    May 17, 2016
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    5 ways to reach the right people with your fact-checking

    If a fact-check falls into a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Apologies for the old trope, [...]

    May 16, 2016
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    3 charts that show the very different news audiences for mobile web and apps

    When a designer or product manager at a news organization wants to improve a mobile product, she might commonly set up observational sessions to watch [...]

    May 11, 2016
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    How to assess the vibrancy of a community’s news ecosystem

    Is there enough news produced by and for your community? How might you know? That question is increasing in both importance and difficulty, as traditional [...]

    May 10, 2016
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