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The Blog
Newsrooms Need to Do More to Reach Out to Communities
The media landscape is shifting and becoming more participatory, and people want to do more than just read the news. They want to be co-creators, collaborators and distributors.
While newsrooms have invested in various forms of community engagement — from mobilizing local bloggers into coordinated networks to using robust social media strategies to organizing community events — there is still a lot we don’t know about how to assess and measure the impact of this work.
NYPD Tries to Rewrite History
After becoming the epicenter for press suppression and journalist arrests over the last nine months, the NYPD is trying to rewrite history and pretend like nothing ever happened.
The Future of News in New Orleans
Last week’s announcement that the New Orleans Times-Picayune would be slashing its staff and cutting its print run to just three days a week has sparked a new round of debates about the future of news. But one piece has been missing in this discussion: the role of media policy.
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Police have arrested journalists and activists around the country for the “crime” of documenting political protests in public spaces. Act Now.
A U.K. investigation concluded that Rupert Murdoch is “not fit to run an international company.” Tell Congress: Hold Murdoch to Account in the U.S.