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Quartz
I am a professional writer, but I often hate my writing. I wish it was more concise and powerful. And it certainly doesn't read as smoothly as the work of my literary heroes. Recently, I began to wonder: Could a software program make me better at my job?
The Hemingway App, an online writing editor created in 2013 by brothers Adam and Ben Long, promises to do just that.
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Journalism.co.uk
Community journalism, the local news coverage typically focused on neighborhoods, suburbs and small towns, helps to address gaps in the mainstream media, providing increased diversity, greater depth and context to reporting in any particular area.
With the advancement of technologies such as virtual reality, livestreaming capabilities, 8K video footage and 5G internet, it's never been easier for local news organizations to get eyeballs on stories.
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Publishers Weekly
At the Ambassador Theatre in New York on June 15, Nobel Prize–winning novelist and longtime editor Toni Morrison joined National Book Award winner and The Atlantic correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates and Robert Frost Medal winner Sonia Sanchez in a conversation called "Art and Social Justice," hosted by the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. During the two-hour conversation, the three writers discussed writing and race in America.
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The New York Times
I came a little late to e-books, but I became a convert in 2010 when my older daughter was born. I needed a way to read books with one hand (and in a dark room), so I got a Kindle. The Kindle and ice cream sandwiches — also easily managed with one hand — are what got me through the brutal early weeks with a newborn, when you basically can't put them down. Now I'm on my fifth Kindle.
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Poynter
Last month, Associated Press media and technology writer Ryan Nakashima started an experiment on user behavior and online ads. On Wednesday, he published the early results.
"I think we confirmed a lot of suspicions that pop-up ads indeed are annoying and people try to get rid of them as fast as they can," said Nakashima, who's continuing work he started as a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford.
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Digiday
In the scramble to serve Facebook, publishers have pivoted to video, with some disastrous results. Not Slate. It is betting big on text and podcasting this year, supported by new hires, ad strategy and site design.
"The big story is, we're pivoting to words," said Julia Turner, editor of Slate. "We're going to be experimenting with all media, but we spent lot of 2017 looking at the fundamentals of the business of the written word and podcasting and found a strong case in investing in both."
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Columbia Journalism Review
An intensified search for philanthropy by the U.K.-based Guardian Media Group has touched off an experiment that could provide a new revenue source for American newspapers.
A newly created U.S. nonprofit, theguardian.org, has already raised $2.4 million in foundation gifts and pledges, and has sent some of that money to the Guardian news operations to finance five journalism initiatives.
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AdAge
Mark Zuckerberg is upending the News Feed, what people see on Facebook every day, in a way that will boost posts from friends, while downplaying messages from brands and media companies, even video posts.
The Facebook CEO announced the changes on the social network on Thursday evening, and it sounded like a warning for publishers and media partners that rely on the platform to reach audiences.
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Adweek
If Facebook's announcement that its News Feed algorithm was being altered to favor posts from friends and family over those from publishers and pages came as a surprise to anyone, it probably shouldn't have.
A source at the social network even said, "We've been openly discussing the decline in organic reach for a long time — almost four years. I know it's still surprising to many, but it certainly wasn't a secret."
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The Verge
Instagram is testing a new "Type" feature within Stories for users to share text-based messages as an alternative to photos or video, as reported by The Next Web. Though this was originally spotted last December among users in Japan, it's now appearing for select groups in Europe, as well.
The feature appears as a separate option at the bottom of the screen when within Stories, alongside the other usual options like Boomerang and Live.
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Greenhouse Grower
The JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, is a 10-acre arboretum and botanical garden with a diverse collection of plants adapted for landscape use in the Southeast. Each year, seed and plug companies submit entries for plant performance evaluation. This year, approximately 360 samples were entered into the trials, which were planted on May 2, 2017.
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UC Berkeley
With recreational cannabis newly legal in California, the UC Botanical Garden has lined up a full roster of experts to explore scientific topics raised by the commercialization and use of the popular plant, from the environmental impact of large-scale cannabis cultivation to the effect of cannabis in our brains to its medical uses. "The garden is a plant-based institution with a strong bias toward research," says garden director Eric Siegel.
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Well + Good
If you've been carefully planning the itinerary of your hypothetical surfing-filled trip to Australia, there's another item to add to your wellness getaway schedule: the world's tallest vertical garden.
The land Down Under seems to have it all: larger-than-life crystal gardens, avocado and coffee-filled meals, and endless home inspo, not to mention the fact that its population seems to be made up almost entirely of fitness superstars.
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