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Forbes
Unless you've been living under a rock the past 10-plus years, you've likely heard about the enormous difficulties facing the newspaper industry, particularly local journalism, which was once the backbone of communities around the world. The past year resulted in the worst year of job losses at news organizations since 2009 — the year the recession sent reporters into new careers.
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Nieman Lab
The topic on everyone’s mind: how to grow reader revenue. With most categories seeing increasing challenges — including and especially advertising — reader revenue is the phrase on everyone’s lips.
A year ago, I wrote about my experiment around what I call a timewall. Instead of a hard or soft paywall, paying members get the benefit of early access to content in exchange for their payment (along with some other perks).
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Reuters Institute
This year's report adopts a new format which highlights the views of digital leaders on the key issues facing the news industry and combines this with five forward-looking contributions from the Reuters Institute. The main purpose is to provide useful insights for the year ahead and to identify the most important media trends.
The last 10 years were defined by the twin technological disruptions of mobile and social media.
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With the widest selection of full-blooming varieties, Optimara continues to advance the industry with new plant varieties and innovative growing techniques, constantly refined over years of research and development. We create new, exciting plants and care products which are trend-setting and truly functional. Our effort is to continue offering customers a unique selection of flowers in a beautiful product line.
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Los Angeles Times
A federal judge will not temporarily exempt freelance journalists and photographers from a broad new California labor law, saying they waited too long to challenge restrictions that they fear could put some of them out of business.
U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez in Los Angeles denied the temporary restraining order sought by two freelancers' organizations while he takes more time to consider their objections to the law requiring that many be treated as employees instead of independent contractors.
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Ad Age
What's up in media jobs? Internet media. What's down? Everything else.
Internet media over the past decade surpassed TV, radio, magazines and newspapers to become the biggest employment sector in media.
Employment at internet media firms has more than tripled to 277,000 jobs since the Great Recession ended in June 2009, according to Ad Age Datacenter's analysis of job figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Medium
Predictions are a tricky business, but there is one sure thing for 2020: local news publishers cannot depend on the old ways of doing business. The time for chain newspapers wielding a monopoly in communities is ending, and more independent and nonprofit news organizations are taking root around the country and making sure that watchdog journalism continues to thrive.
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PBS News Hour
Across the country, local newspapers are printing fewer pages, less frequently — and sometimes collapsing entirely. Recent studies paint a grim picture of the decline in local newspapers and the impact it has on American politics. Jeffrey Brown reports and talks to Chuck Plunkett, formerly of the Denver Post, and the GroundTruth Project’s Charles Sennott about the crisis of lost local news.
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Adweek
The emergence of Facebook's stand-alone News tab in October appeared to signal that the end was near for its Instant Articles fast-loading rich media stories from publishers, but appearances can be deceiving.
Product manager Jaynth Thiagarajan detailed several updates to Instant Articles in a recent blog post, adding that 30% more time is spent on Instant Articles than on traditional mobile web articles.
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The Verge
Speaking at a CES event in Las Vegas, Twitter's director of product management, Suzanne Xie, unveiled some new changes that are coming to the platform this year, focusing specifically on conversations.
Xie says Twitter is adding a new setting for "conversation participants" right on the compose screen. It has four options: "Global, Group, Panel, and Statement."
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KOVR-TV
If you live in California and have any gas-powered gardening tools, you may be forced to give them up soon.
California is considering a statewide ban on the equipment.
At least 60 cities in California have some kind of ban on gas-powered garden tools, but now state regulators are concerned about the impacts these tools could be having on the environment.
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AgNet West
A rain garden is designed so that the water is sent into gardens where it waters your plants or is captured in a holding spot where it can percolate out slowly. This keeps the water from going into storm drains or pooling in low areas and basically wasted.
Rain gardens collect rainwater from hard surfaces like your roof, driveway, or other areas where water channels, where that excess water can nourish water-loving plants and drain away without wreaking havoc.
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Cape Gazette
In winter we look to the cold skies, some of us literally by taking hot-air balloon rides. One of the most striking things about balloon rides is the absolute silence of the ride because the balloon is moving with the wind, so there is no wind noise.
Like New Year's Day celebrations in the air, many balloon rides include champagne. Champagne and ballooning go back to the very first balloons launched by the brothers Montgolfier, but the champagne was not used to celebrate the balloon flight.
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