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Days before the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the Local Media Consortium (LMC) offered a manifesto on how media companies should respond to the proliferation of "fake news" that drew huge attention during the campaign for the presidency. Here's a slightly condensed version of the manifesto from LMC, a partnership that aims to increase digital revenue and audience for companies representing more than 1,600 news sites in the U.S.:
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2/9/17
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Doug Franklin is the new CEO of The Boston Globe.
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1/12/17
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For a 2,700-circulation weekly serving Yellowstone and two other Montana counties, The Laurel Outlook has a robust digital presence.
The paper’s special sections and niche publications such …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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12/30/16
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Since the dawn of the internet, at least a few lawmakers in nearly every state have sought to eliminate the requirement that public notices be published in generally circulating print publications. …
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12/30/16
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Cedar Rapids Media Company, publisher of the The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has bought the assets of three Iowa daily newspapers from the Murray family.
Included in the deal were The …
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12/30/16
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Argent Arkansas News Media, an affiliate of Marion, Ill.-based Horizon Publications, has purchased two Arkansas dailies, the Forrest City Times-Herald and the Marianna Courier-Index, from Weston and …
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12/30/16
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A Star Tribune-branded magazine is coming back to the newspaper in April. This won’t be the sort of Sunday magazine most metros abandoned years ago because of cost and advertiser …
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12/30/16
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When Amy Gilligan officially becomes executive editor on January 1, she’ll mark two new firsts at the Telegraph Herald: the first woman ever to hold the top editor position, and the first top …
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12/30/16
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A comprehensive analysis of consumers who visit the websites of Local Media Consortium (LMC) member organizations finds they are much more likely to respond to marketing by some big advertising …
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12/30/16
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Martha Arnold Susong (Arne) Jones—a co-owner of The Greeneville (Tenn.) Sun who wrote a popular column for the paper for more than three decades until retiring it at age 92—died Dec. 16 …
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12/30/16
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Shirley Calkins Ellis, a second-generation co-owner and vice president of Calkins Media, has died. She was 82.
The company said she died of natural causes at her home in Riverton, N.J., on Nov. …
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12/30/16
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ppi Media was awarded the prestigious Innovation Through Research seal from the Donor’s Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany (Stifterverband für die deutsche …
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12/30/16
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Joseph Schumpeter, the famous economist, coined the phrase “creative destruction” in 1942 to describe the disruptive effect of innovation on existing products and processes. He called it …
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By Matt Lindsay
Atlanta, Georgia
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12/30/16
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Cox Enterprises’ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has been running the Mark Bradley Bracket Fiasco for going on 29 years. Named for the paper’s award-winning sportswriter, who started the …
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Matt Coen
Saint Louis
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12/30/16
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Walter M. Wick, an inductee in the Arizona Newspaper Association Hall of Fame and Publisher Emeritus of the Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review, died Christmas …
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Eric Petermann, Sierra Vista Herald Opinions Editor
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12/28/16
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New Media Investment Group Inc. is acquiring the six newspapers and most other assets of Harris Enterprises Inc., a company the Harris family has owned since 1907. New Media said the six papers will …
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12/2/16
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Paddock Publications—which for decades focused on the greater Chicago market anchored by its Daily Herald in suburban Arlington Heights—for the second time in three months has added …
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12/2/16
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Among many journalists it’s an article of faith that reporting must include interpretation and context to be anything more than stenography.
That’s not how most Americans see it, …
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By Mark Fitzgerald
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12/2/16
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Newsrooms talk a big game about data—but nearly all of them are not putting to work the data they collect.
That’s the finding of a survey of news editors and producers conducted by the …
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12/2/16
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Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. has honored four employees with the 2016 President’s Circle Award for demonstrating excellence in their roles and innovation in responding to new …
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12/2/16
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Muskogee (Okla.) Phoenix Publisher John Newby has been named to an additional publisher role at Community Newspaper Holding Inc.’s Tahlequah (Okla.) Daily Press.
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12/2/16
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Quillion
Robin Quillon, publisher of The Tribune-Democrat in Johnstown, Pa., and the Cumberland (Md.) Times-News, has been appointed senior vice president/operations for Community Newspaper …
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12/2/16
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Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. has appointed regional editors to work with the media group’s newsrooms in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia and Florida in an initiative to accelerate content …
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12/2/16
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Douglas R. Brown has been named president and publisher of News-Banner Publications Inc. in Bluffton, Ind.
He replaces Mark Miller who had served in those capacities as well as editor since 1997 …
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12/2/16
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The Local Media Consortium (LMC) has expanded its executive board from eight members to 10, including three new members from Inland member companies, as membership continues to increase in the …
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12/2/16
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