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Poynter
Doing journalism in the current climate of mistrust and suspicion can feel like rowing a small boat in an increasingly choppy sea. We're rowing as hard as we can, just as we were taught, yet still getting tossed around and even overboard. While we row, we might be longing for the good old days of calmer waters, in which journalists (with fully staffed newsrooms) were seen as trusted, authoritative sources of nonpartisan information.
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MediaPost
Google News has built a new feature to surface and highlight more in-depth articles.
"Beyond the Headlines" will live on the right side of news.google.com. It will rely on Google News algorithms to bring up and organize in-depth articles on topics such as healthcare, the environment and education.
Stories include features, explainers and editorials, as well as other longer-form articles.
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Join the celebration! Foxgloves changed the look and feel of gardening with unmatched dexterity, color, comfort and style. Foxgloves have earned the reputation for being “the gloves you love to wear!”
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The Millions
I used to be in a band.
We played more than 600 shows in our roughly seven years together. We lasted seven years and 600 shows and three full-length albums and four EPs and two tapes, and dozens upon dozens of sessions, interviews and videos. We weren't the best. We weren't the coolest. We weren't the hippest. But we were good.
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Pew Research Center
Americans continue to be more likely to get news through mobile devices than through desktop or laptop computers. Roughly six-in-10 U.S. adults (57%) often get news this way, compared with 30% who often do so on a desktop or laptop computer, according to a Pew Research Center survey.
The share of Americans who often get news on a mobile device is more than double the 21% who did so in 2013, the first time we asked this question.
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Local News Initiative
Everyone seems to produce email newsletters these days. But not everyone is doing it well.
Which is a shame, since newsletters have been identified as a key way to build subscriber loyalty as local news operations shift from reliance on advertising dollars to a customer revenue model.
Major data research has established that readers who visited news websites regularly were more likely to remain as subscribers.
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Nieman Lab
Paywalls are working at some (inter)national news organizations. But how are they working on the local — or even the hyperlocal — level?
Two years into its paywall, the northeast Kansas-based Shawnee Mission Post is at the forefront of smaller outlets asking their readership for money in exchange for reading. More and more are considering it, but at a panel about increasing loyalty and the audience funnel during the recent LION Publishers conference, one attendee asked, paraphrased: "That’s great, but how can we take that data back to help direct ad sales?"
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Make your garden come to life with Sunfinity® Sunflowers that thrive and bloom continuously all season long.
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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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What's New in Publishing
Earlier this week, Facebook announced its new payment service, Facebook Pay. Aimed at providing people with a "convenient, secure and consistent payment experience," the service will be enabled across Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp.
If this seems out of the blue, that's because it is. Some have suggested that the timing of the launch implies it's a backup plan after its plans for a global currency, Libra, hit major roadblocks.
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Business Insider
Short-form video giant TikTok is still gaining traction.
According to data from analytics site Sensor Tower, TikTok has hit 1.5 billion total downloads across the App Store and Google Play. It hit 1 billion downloads in February of this year, and has raked in 614 million downloads so far this year — which Sensor Tower notes is 6% more than this time last year.
Much of TikTok's growth has been driven by an explosion of users in India, who accounted for 31% of the app's downloads.
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Forbes
In today's digital age, social media engagement is becoming more and more integral to a company's growth and success.
With countless guides and methods online, you've likely heard and tried many of the more common tips to increase social media interactions. However, sometimes a less-common approach can be just what you need to take your engagement to the next level.
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The Orange County Register
If there is a "most polarizing species" when it comes to garden-worthy plant selections, Natal plum (Carissa macrocarpa) might be it. Some gardeners love it and some feel precisely the opposite about it. It shows lush green foliage throughout the year, fragrant white flowers in spring and summer, as well as deep red, edible fruit in fall and winter. A bonus is its drought tolerance. Once it has been growing for a year or two, it may as well be a cactus for all the water it requires.
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BobVila.com
Just because the weather has gotten chilly doesn't mean you can't still grow things — and bring them to the dinner table. Many vegetables like kale, Brussels sprouts and cabbage actually taste better after having been exposed to frost.
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WTOP-FM
One of the biggest bits of misinformation I always try and correct at this time of year is about how to take care of your garden in the fall and how to clean it up for winter.
Yes, you should remove (or at least shred) any leaves that are smothering your lawn and plants. And yes, you should remove (and compost) your pitiful, dead tomato plants and such. But you should not "neaten things up" by pruning.
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