Advice From Young Journalists

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Area Satirical Publication The Onion Sold To Univision (Seriously)

The Spanish-language network gets a 40 percent, controlling stake in The Onion and related sites, including The A.V. Club and Clickhole. The move comes as Univision tries to reach more millennials.

Today in (sorta) not from The Onion. 

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Newspaper bosses ‘paralyzed’ by change, clueless about paid content, says Steve Brill

A stumbling newspaper industry has been clueless on paywalls and in how to produce content people will actually spend money to read, says Steve Brill. But why should one be surprised, he contends, …

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Amazingly, this is actual reform. Not a euphemism for more media blackouts. - AR

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You can steal Sara Simon’s sewage bot…and everything else she makes

There were a lot of sewage spills last summer in Vermont. Unfortunately, the state website that reported those spills was somewhat hard to navigate — people who wanted to know if their water was sa…

A super interesting interview about how coding, media and public radio all come together -AR

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It's okay! We're journalists.

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Stephanie Foo writes: In this week’s show, I produced a story about the phenomenon of turkey deep fryer PSAs. Go listen to it here.

A follow-up to yesterday’s post. 

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My aesthetic: Public radio reporters doing stories about how they just discovered a YouTube meme. 

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The Boston Globe wants to use the release and critical success of Spotlight as an opportunity to market itself to new readers.

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A new study seems likely to force a rethinking of some conventional wisdom about health care and ways to rein in costs, with detailed information about where you live.

This article from the NYT detects your location and shows you data relevant to your location first. Once again, Upshot leads the way in creative uses of digital tech. -AR

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76 Viral Images From 2015 That Were Totally Fake

Verify, verify, verify.

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Gov. Cuomo (photo via The Governor's Office on flickr) In response to the conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on multiple federal corruption charges, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared on Friday that the legislature

In response to the conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos on multiple federal corruption charges, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared on Friday that the legislature "must stop standing in the way of needed reforms." Only a few hours later he vetoed two bills designed to speed and reform Freedom of Information Law response and require the state to pay court costs incurred by FOIL users whose requests a judge finds have been improperly denied.

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Ira Glass Exhausted From Doing Every Single Voice On ‘This American Life’

NEW YORK—Revealing that the creative demands of the long-running public radio program take a substantial toll, Ira Glass told reporters Thursday that he was exhausted from single-handedly doing all the voices for each episode of This American Lif...

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