Facebook technicians are facing difficulties with their “Today In” service because of an inability to find reporting on a local level. The service was launched in 2018 and is available in 400 cities in the United States. Read more…More about Faceboo…
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Facebook fights local ‘news deserts’ it helped create
Facebook is once again touting its attempt to solve a problem it helped create.
The company announced Monday that it would provide select researchers access to information about news deserts, which are places with little to no local news covera…
Medium buys Bay Area mag The Bold Italic to add to its paywall
Medium is seeking to juice up its premium subscription content in its home market with the acquisition of The Bold Italic. The 10-year-old online culture magazine will go behind the $5 per month Medium Membership paywall. The deal will keep The Bold Italic afloat when other San Francisco-local publications have struggled, following the shutdown of […]
View More Medium buys Bay Area mag The Bold Italic to add to its paywallFacebook is about to start investing in local news
Over the next three years, Facebook intends to donate $300 million to aid journalists and newsrooms in smaller U.S. cities. Read more…More about Facebook, Mashable Video, Digital Media, Newspapers, and Local News
View More Facebook is about to start investing in local newsPainful local news fail happens at the worst possible time
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Being a newscaster is high pressure, reading the news live every day and knowing that if you slip up it’ll be there for the internet to see.
And that’s exactly what happened to Brianna Clark, an anchor on Kentucky’s WPSD, who badly mangled the name of Deidre Mengedoht, a Louisville police officer who was killed in a Christmas Eve car crash.
Where her very off-the-mark pronunciation came from is a mystery — a painful, cringe-inducing mystery. But it’s very unfortunate timing.
The Louisville Police Department has launched a fundraiser to benefit Officer Mengedoht’s 9-year-old son here. Read more…
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View More Painful local news fail happens at the worst possible timeReporter stays impressively calm in the face of mysterious animal on live TV
Live news: it’s full of surprises. Including … mysterious animals?
Morgan Saxton, a broadcast journalist for KUTV in Salt Lake City, Utah, kept on reporting even when an unexpected animal entered the camera frame. “What you’re seeing is actually a …
CBS launches local news streaming services
CBS is today debuting a new portfolio of streaming services designed to deliver local news to cord cutters and other digital media consumers. The services, branded CBSN Local, will live under the CBSN brand – the 24/7 news channel first launched in November 2014 that made its way to the CBS All Access streaming service last August. […]
View More CBS launches local news streaming servicesRedding newspaper lost power amid extreme fire, but still found a way to print the news
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Print news is alive.
After California’s violent Carr Fire jumped over the Sacramento River Thursday night and entered the west part of Redding, home to over 90,000 inhabitants, the tempestuous fire took out a significant portion’s of the city’s electrical grid — even toppling transmission towers.
But the local newspaper, the Redding Record Searchlight, was able to get its paper out — amid approaching flames and without power.
On Friday, Record Searchlight reporter Damon Arthur tweeted that the paper’s office had lost all power, similar to other parts of the city, including evacuation centers. Read more…
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View More Redding newspaper lost power amid extreme fire, but still found a way to print the newsPeople show love for local newspapers after Capital Gazette attack
Following the tragic shooting at The Capital Gazette, people are showing their support for local press.
At least five people were killed, with several others “gravely injured,” in the shooting on Thursday at the newspaper’s offices in Annapolis, Mary…
Warning: The following news clip is so awkward you may never recover
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As a reporter, there are some things I’ve been sent to cover that are so boring — so visibly meaningless — that I am stunned into silence.
So you have to have a little empathy for poor reporter Dave Scott, who was recently forced to cover the opening of an inflatables festival in San Diego.
This is the most awkward three minutes of news journalism you’ll ever watch. You may not even make it to the end of the clip, humbled by the eviscerating prolonged silences. There’s a strong chance you’ll want to lunge at your computer, screaming “Someone please help that man!” only to have the cold, hard screen protector look back at you, devoid of feeling. Read more…
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View More Warning: The following news clip is so awkward you may never recoverReporter compiles his wackiest out-of-context lines
Out of context, anything can sound weird, but you don’t usually expect particularly wacky lines from a news broadcast.
Reporter Trevor Ault, who describes himself on Twitter as “Portland, Oregon’s tallest breaking news anchor/reporter,” cre…
Facebook is now prioritizing local news globally
As Facebook continues to face fierce media scrutiny over how it handles user data, the company may well be wishing for some gentler headlines. So it’s perhaps no accident it’s chosen today to announce the international rollout of a News Feed tweak it made in the US, back in January, that’s designed to inject more local […]
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