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Meta threatens to remove news from Instagram and Facebook over proposed California law
Nieman Lab - Sarah Scire
You may have heard a thing or two about California’s Journalism Preservation Act, modeled after similar (but ultimately unsuccessful) legislation. While some news outlets have come out in favor of the proposal targeting tech company use of news content, others in the industry have called the bill …
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With new widgets, The Philadelphia Inquirer wants to be readers’ favorite “second-screen experience”
Nieman Lab - Sarah Scire
The news org is catering to the readers who spend a lot of time on their phones during live events like sports games and election returns. When The Philadelphia Inquirer launched an election night widget earlier this month, they were fairly confident it would work smoothly. After all, they’d already …
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Climbing the “ladder of abstraction” to evoke empathy and elevate your message
Nieman Foundation - Korrina Duffy
A concept adapted from theories of rhetoric can help writers choose details that add both intimacy and universality to a story EDITOR’S NOTE: In the …
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How ProPublica reached workers while reporting on dairy farm conditions
Nieman Lab - Charles Ornstein, ProPublica
“We plan to do more than simply expect that readers will find the story and find us. We plan to take the story to them.” This story was originally published by ProPublica. Spanish-speaking dairy farm workers in Wisconsin, many of them undocumented immigrants, are not regular readers of our website. …
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Inspiration and planning for the next chapter — of life and writing
Nieman Foundation - Jacqui Banaszynski
The editor marks five years and 260 Storyboard newsletters with a little help from a friend By Jacqui Banaszynski Last week life brought me one of …
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Last Night at School Committee distills hours-long public meetings into half-hour podcast episodes
Nieman Lab - Sophie Culpepper
“We have created this podcast as an easy way for any parent, citizen, or interested party to get the highlights, and our take, on what happened last night at School Committee.” Jill Shah has attended a lot of Boston School Committee meetings. As president of the Shah Family Foundation — a …