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    Making local sponsored content: 10 good questions with Local News Now

    Read any recent headlines on native advertising or sponsored content and you’ll likely see reference to national and other large publishers experimenting with the content [...]

    September 4, 2014
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    Behind the viral hoax: 6 good questions with Nipsys News

    A fake news story that claimed the legal drinking age in the U.S. would soon change to 25 began appearing on social media early this [...]

    August 27, 2014
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    Demystifying the news nerds team with a ‘science fair’: 5 good questions with NPR’s Becky Lettenberger

    The “news nerds” that make up the news application and multimedia teams usually sit in a different place, speak a different language, and work on [...]

    August 21, 2014
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    Fact checking in ‘the Church of St. Google’: 5 good questions with Bob Smietana

    Bob Smietana, a religion news writer and president of the Religion Newswriters Association, has an admittedly bad habit — using his smartphone in church during [...]

    August 14, 2014
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    Grabbing new readers with a “passion”: 7 good questions with The Dallas Morning News

    The Dallas Morning News recently launched an initiative to attract and engage with new audiences by focusing on areas and topics that its readers are passionate [...]

    July 23, 2014
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    Battling bogus media: 5 good questions with Checkdesk

    The bogus tweets and photos that marred social media coverage of events like the Arab uprising and Hurricane Sandy have spurred the development of a number of fact-checking [...]

    July 15, 2014
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    How to drive innovation inside large news organizations

    When Quartz, the fast growing global business website from Atlantic Media, announced that it had created a chart building tool to enable reporters to quickly [...]

    July 14, 2014
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    Fact checking the fuzzy-fact-filled Sunday talk shows

    On the popular Sunday political talk shows, the talk isn’t always precise. Facts can be fuzzy, questions confusing, answers circuitous. It’s great fodder for the [...]

    July 8, 2014
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    How a publisher-university partnership drives innovation: 8 good questions with Tom Negrete

    The Sacramento Bee’s been busy in the field of data. Recently, The Bee has been working closely with universities like Stanford on using data to [...]

    June 26, 2014
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    How niche reporting leads to higher quality information for everyone: 12 good questions with Lara Setrakian

    Syria’s civil war is a story that goes in and out of the mainstream news media, but at Syria Deeply, it’s the only story. Lara [...]

    June 19, 2014
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