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Columbia Journalism Review
It is because local journalism needs reinvention that, not long ago, an opera singer stood at the front of a carpeted, fluorescent-lit conference room in a Miami office building belting out a bit of Rigoletto. This was toward the end of the evening, following performances by a pop singer, a spoken-word poet, and an experimental dancer who'd ripped up a sheet of music notation and stuffed the pieces in her mouth.
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Catapult
Writing literature and having a writing career are entirely separate things. A writer is an artist whose work may be informed or influenced, but never overdetermined, by the pressures of making money, publishing and building an audience — that's a writing career. Writing is pointless if you don't get to write what you want, even if it's obscure, difficult or non-lucrative.
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The Next Web
There's a pervasive idea out there that life and creativity are a zero-sum game. Indulge one, destroy the other. Or, as designer Stefan Sagmeister once wrote in a mural of coins across a plaza in Amsterdam: "Obsessions make my life worse and my work better." But as anyone who has ever experienced it knows, there comes a point when obsession makes your work worse, too. Burnout can be creatively lethal.
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Forbes
Among teenagers, there is no app cooler than Snapchat, earning the recent IPO-ed photo tool a market cap worth almost twice as much Twitter's. But there's one camp that doesn't value the app — journalists.
According to a survey from Muck Rack, a start-up that analyzes journalism, 70% of journalists see Twitter as a valuable social media tool, while none find professional value in Snapchat.
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Advertising Age
Facebook hasn't lost the war against Google for publishers' content, but it looks like it's losing one fight.
The company said that it's created a software extension that lets publishers easily transfer content formatted for its Instant Articles to the No. 1 competition for mobile readers in a hurry, Google AMP. AMP pages load near instantaneously.
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Greenhouse Grower
At Greenhouse Grower, one of the constant despair topics, regardless of the decade, is our gnashing of teeth about the lack of young people coming into the industry. I have listened, I have heard, and I still don't believe. They are there, they are keen, and they are smart.
Here are a couple of "kids" who are ready to do great things. They have the juice.
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NPR
The short, but intense, growing season in Vermont might be a drawback for some, but for native son Cam MacKugler, it has turned out to be the key to developing his container garden kit startup, Seedsheet.
"Up here in Vermont," says MacKugler, "we don't have a lot of time to grow our food, so the goal is to get as much as you can as quickly as possible."
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The Washington Post
Is it possible to pour the entire well of American garden history into 10 glass cases? Probably not, but the Smithsonian has made a valiant effort with a new exhibition at the American History Museum.
The show inhabits a small gallery on the museum's ground floor; if you see a silver, three-eyed Tucker automobile, you've gone too far. Make a U-turn and pop into "Cultivating America's Gardens."
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Recode
People watched, read, listened, streamed and posted more media than ever in 2016, but that consumption plateaued this year, according to data released by research firm Zenith.
Globally, individuals on average spent 456.1 minutes each day consuming media last year; in 2017, it's expected to decline slightly to 455.8 minutes.
That suggests we've reached peak media, but that's not the case when you look at the data by regions.
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Growth Lab
The Coaching Habit was published on Feb. 29, 2016. (Leap Day! Why wouldn't you take advantage of that?)
In the year since, it's sold nearly 200,000 copies, including 8,000 ebooks in one week in May. It made the Wall Street Journal bestseller list "organically" (which is to say, accidentally). It received more than 500 reviews on Amazon, 450 of which are five-star. And it's been the No. 1 book in the business/coaching category for about 95 percent of the year.
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Digiday
The New York Times' email lists are swelling. The Times announced in an internal memo that it has amassed 13 million email subscriptions, more than twice the number it had three years ago.
A lot of the growth comes from a huge uptick in the number of newsletters it publishes. In the summer of 2015, the Times was sending out 33 newsletters regularly; today, it sends out more than 50 editorial emails at least weekly (along with seven marketing-focused newsletters, which are sent less frequently).
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Northeastern University School of Journalism
Newsrooms don't follow a standard playbook. They scramble, they adapt, they make mistakes. But are there some go-to tools and best practices worth adopting, whether you're a data reporter, newsroom manager or journalism educator?
Over the last three years, Storybench, a website from Northeastern University's School of Journalism's Media Innovation graduate program, has interviewed 72 data journalists, web developers, interactive graphics editors and project managers from around the world.
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GWA
GWA and the GWA Foundation are excited to announce the second annual #GWA2017 NextGen Scholarship to attend the 2017 GWA Annual Conference & Expo, Aug. 4-7 in Buffalo, New York. This year, three scholarships will be offered, covering #GWA2017 conference registration as well as up to $1,000 in travel ($1,500 value).
Ideal scholarship recipients would be working as a garden writer, blogger, speaker or photographer under the age of 40.
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GWA
Field trips are an integral part of the Temple University experience. These events are probably the highlight of the semester for students and faculty, especially in the horticulture field. This spring, I took my Ambler Campus Food Crops class to Phillips Mushroom Farms in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, to tour the largest specialty mushroom grower in the United States.
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GWA
In the April-May 2017 issue ...
- Sally Cunningham previews the #GWA2017 Post-Conference Tours
- Update GWA President Kirk Brown
- New and returning columns covering: Food with Patrick Ryan, Business with Angela Treadwell-Palmer, Photography with Rob Cardillo, Sustainability with Marcia Tate
- Preview of #GWA2017 Education Sessions
- GWA member profile on Melinda Myers & Debra Prinzing
- GWA Regional, Publishing and Industry News
- Plus much more!
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GWA
Join Region I GWA members for tours of three stunning Harvard Yard gardens, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Mary M.B. Wakefield Estate and Eleanor Bradley Estate & Gardens. Events will also include a Connect Meeting and Trunk Show.
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GWA
Join GWA in the greater Lancaster region as we spend the day visiting the Penn State Trial Gardens,
Lancaster Historical Society and Tanger Arboretum, culminating in a trunk show and
GWA Connect meeting.
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GWA
Join Region III GWA members for two days of touring Indiana's beautiful gardens, including Holliday Park Nature, Sky Garden and Common Ground at Eskenazi Hospital and the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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GWA
GWA will again have a major presence at the horticulture industry's largest trade show, Cultivate'17 (#Cultivate17). GWA's Association Outreach Committee has again arranged for GWA members to gain special access to the trade show, education sessions and other valuable networking events. Let's see if we can set some records for GWA presence this year!
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