#journalism affirmation

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Don’t Stop the Presses! When Local News Struggles, Democracy Withers

The sad story of the East Bay Times exemplifies how the decline of community journalism erodes civic engagement.

Truer words have never been written.

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From civil to cesspool: Local news battles offensive comments

LAST WEEK, AS THE CHARLESTON POST & COURIER covered a hostage standoff and shooting at a local restaurant, editor Mitch Pugh announced his paper would shut down comments on the developing story. FYI: We are in the process of disabling comments on the breaking shooting story. Majority either violated TOS, off topic or repugnant. — Mitch […]

Denver Post Digital Director Becky Risch is quoted in this story and talk about how revolutionary it is to have a service that helps people be rational. What a concept, huh?

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Think President Trump’s press-bashing doesn’t affect local journalists? Think again.

The latest edition of the Charlevoix Courier, a small weekly in Northern Michigan, is a potpourri of small-town Americana: the retirements of several local school employees, how a library official …

"I think it's easy to rip people when you've never met them, but our folks have met us, dealt with us, and understand what we're doing. And, for the most part, they appreciate our work. One challenge is to overcome the image of a news organization as a monolithic, impenetrable, uncontrollable force and demonstrate that we're neighbors, trying our hardest to deliver information local people need to have."

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No simpler way to say it.

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"Those who have worked inside newsrooms know that while there is often “group think” that needs to be challenged, most journalists are ethical, independent and are proud of working in an industry that helps strengthen American democracy."

As a trusted colleague has said, “We’re not at war, we’re at work.” 

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It is cheap, it is cowardly, and it is bad citizenship to simply shriek ‘fake news!’ every time reality forces a hard choice upon us.

Kevin D. Williamson, correspondent for the National Review Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447693/fake-news-media-voters-shared-reality-must-be-acknowledged

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Newsonomics: Can a master blacklist choke off fake news’ money supply?

The Open Brand Safety framework is an attempt to create a master list of fake news sites so advertisers can learn to avoid them.

When Jeff Jarvis (who directs CUNY’s Tow-Knight Center and has been focused on the trust issue) how he expects to use the money, he ticked off more than a half dozen ideas — “new metrics of impact,” news literacy, better “public listening,” and the more abstract “How do we rethink the informed conversation?”

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A Dallas Morning News editor inspires the next generation of journalists. Well done.