Search Results: Local News
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How Facebook is Going for Local News
- Sarah Whitmire
- Anthony Quintano
- Cal Lundmark
- Kurt Gessler
In early 2018, Facebook made a series of large-scale changes to its Newsfeed and to the system used to track these changes, sending shockwaves through the news industry. By...
How to Innovate As a Journalism Educator (2018)
- Dana Coester
- Pam Fine
- Zita Arocha
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Moderated by Sandeep Junnarkar
Learn fresh ways to collaborate, experiment and create content from educators who have gotten buy-in from universities and local communities on ambitious reporting projects....

How’s My Story Doing? Custom Analytics and Empowered Local Newsrooms
- Kim Fox
- Sharon Chan
- Josh Hart
- Patrick Kerkstra
News needs more than pageview data to understand what audiences are willing to pay for. In new, distinct approaches, The Seattle Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer have built...
Inside Facebook Journalism Project: 2018 Priorities for Local News
- Josh Mabry
Josh Mabry joins us from Facebook’s Local News Partnerships team to share an update on the Facebook Journalism Project’s work to support local news. Take an in-depth look...
Let’s Talk About What Works With Local
- JJ Hensley
- Steven Waldman
- Amy Adams Harding
- Lance Knobel
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Moderated by Chrissy Towle
In a set of lightning sessions with journalists, researchers, publishers and technologists from across North America, you’ll hear first hand about what key leaders are thinking...

Subscriptions, Metrics and the Newsroom: How Journalists are Getting Involved
- Amanda Wilkins
- Mark Francescutti
- Pedro Burgos
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Moderated by Gwen Vargo
As local and regional publishers transition to paywalls, introducing conversion data metrics into decisions made throughout those organizations, and understanding what those...
Table Stakes: Getting into the Game of Digital-First Local News
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Moderated by Doug Smith
The Knight-Lenfest-Temple Newsroom Initiative, popularly known as “Table Stakes,” has fostered transformative change to a digital-first mindset in local legacy newsrooms....
The City As The City Desk
- Tracie Powell
- Aaron Foley
- Aparna Mukherjee
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Moderated by Niala Boodhoo
Successive generations of conglomeration, contraction, disruption and atomization have left serious gaps in local coverage everywhere in the news media. For Detroit and Los...

Fireside Chat with Medium CEO Ev Williams
- Ev Williams
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Moderated by Manoush Zomorodi
When Medium arrived on the web, it offered a number of intriguing features: a publishing platform that existed somewhere between a tweet and a blog post; a stab at fixing broken...