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A plan to support creative work — 100 government dollars at a time
The air’s been thick this summer with new proposals for taxpayer-supported journalism, from tax exemptions to government grants to endless court battles. This sort of talk ruffles people who are...
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From weak to strong news networks: Downie, Jarvis, & Technically Philly
Having spent more than three years doing dissertation research on the changing journalistic ecosystem in Philadelphia, I was excited to see Technically Philly get a great write up last week. And having...
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How government money can corrupt the press: The story from Argentina
The element of the Downie/Schudson report that’s triggered the most fuss is its call for a larger role for the government in funding journalism — the creation of a “Fund for Local News,” supported by...
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The FTC should give nonprofit news a closer look
You know the old saying about how we’re from the government and we’re here to help you? That’s what came to mind as I read the Federal Trade Commission’s notice for its workshop on journalism in the...
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The Federal Communications Commission today posted its notice for public comment for its “examination of the future of media and the information needs of communities in a digital age.” It’s an...
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This Week in Review: Plagiarism and the link, location and context at SXSW,...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] The Times, plagiarism and the link: A few weeks ago, the...
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This Week in Review: News talk and tips at ASNE, iPad’s ‘walled garden,’ and...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] Schmidt and Huffington’s advice for news execs: This week wasn’t...
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This Week in Review: The FTC’s ideas for news, Apple’s paid-news pitch, and...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] The FTC’s ideas for journalism: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission...
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This Week in Review: Paying for obits online, ESPN’s news-ad fusion, and the...
[Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news and the debates that grew up around them. —Josh] Should papers charge for obits on the web?: We’ve written a whole...
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A warning to nonprofit news organizations: Government funding may not boost...
At a time when some Americans are talking about increasing government support for journalism, here’s an interesting new study that adds a useful data point to the discussion: When governments provide...
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This Week in Review: NPR at a crossroads, hyperlocal’s personal issue, and...
Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week’s top stories about the future of news. A bad week for NPR execs named Schiller: For the second time in five months, NPR has found itself in the middle...
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FCC report recommends targeting government ads toward local news
So the long-awaited FCC report on “the information needs of communities” is out. And it’s big, in every sense: Not only does it weigh in, all told, at 465 pages of meaty pdf, but it’s also perhaps the...
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For nonprofits, government money is appealing, but might not help the bottom...
Last year, I wrote about an interesting study with implications for the new generation of nonprofit news organizations — and for those who’d like to see governments more involved in funding...
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This Week in Review: A limp response to plagiarism, and a proposed tax to...
Plagiarism and traditional media’s crisis of confidence: The parade of plagiarism scandals extended to Canada this week, when Margaret Wente, a popular columnist at The Globe and Mail, the country’s...
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What’s New in Digital Scholarship: Why journalists link (or why they don’t)...
Editor’s note: There’s a lot of interesting academic research going on in digital media — but who has time to sift through all those journals and papers? Our friends at Journalist’s Resource, that’s...
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