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Jered Wilcox

Koch Brothers Plan To Buy Up Eight Major Newspapers - 0 views

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    The billionaire oil moguls Charles and David Koch are pushing ahead with their plans to purchase several news outlets across the United States, according to a detailed report in the New York Times on Sunday.
Jered Wilcox

Americans' Confidence in Newspapers Continues to Erode - 0 views

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    WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' confidence in newspapers fell slightly to 23% this year, from 25% in 2012 and 28% in 2011. The percentage of Americans saying they have "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in newspapers has been generally trending downward since 1979, when it reached a high of 51%.
Jered Wilcox

The decline of newspapers has been good for everybody else - 0 views

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    This is an interesting article about how the newspaper industry has changed over the span of a single man's career. He describes how the profits involved are decreasing exponentially, and how less and less jobs are available for this industry.
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    Neil Irwin, wrote " I started working at The Washington Post on June 5, 2000. It was in the same building we work in now, but it was very much a different place. We were just on the cusp between one media age and another, even if not everybody understood that yet."
Samantha VanTassel

Pew Study Paints A Grim Portrait Of Newspapers - 0 views

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    Tom Rosenstiel explains that newspapers have to want to change the culture they have always been distributed. In order to gain more revenue, they need to adapt to the newer technologies that are available to everyone
Samantha VanTassel

College Newspapers Go Digital-First, Innovate To Stay Relevant - 0 views

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    How college newspapers are changing the way people read the newspaper:ditching the old fashioned newspaper for an online version to gain a bigger audience
Samantha VanTassel

As Newspapers and Magazines Struggle, Companies in Other Industries Are Hiring Journali... - 0 views

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    How the media business is being transformed and disruptive. How will this new change effect business' revenue and their way of advertisement?
Samantha VanTassel

A Whole New Kind of Journalism? A Dissenting View - 0 views

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    the article explains; If there's anything left for journalists to do, it's to attempt to add value by analyzing and retelling what everyone has seen already.
Jered Wilcox

How Did Newspapers Blow It? Not Enough Engineers, NYT Publisher Says - 0 views

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    It would be hard to single out just one mistake from the news industry's fumbled transition to the Internet era. But the most important newspaper publisher in America-Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. of the New York Times-says one stumble sticks out among the rest. "Engineers. That's what we didn't focus on fast enough," Sulzberger says.
Jered Wilcox

A shield law is necessary to protect U.S. journalists - 0 views

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    SOME GOVERNMENT secrets should remain under wraps. Many others are kept out of view for poor reasons, including extreme caution, rote classification habits and a lack of recognition that withholding information from the public should be an extraordinary practice.
Jered Wilcox

HARPER: Mixed feelings as Congress weighs media shield law - 0 views

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    It took the Senate Judiciary Committee 837 words to define a journalist. That's nearly 20 times as long as the First Amendment. The definition has become part of the Free Flow of Information Act of 2013, which passed the committee last week by a vote of 13-5.
Jered Wilcox

Holes in Media Shield Law Worry Opponents, and Even Some Supporters - 0 views

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    The so-called media shield law approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee Sept. 12 would likely fail to curtail the Obama administration's most controversial legal offensives against reporters, critics and supporters alike say. Furthermore, it's possible courts could also restrict limited reporter protections if the "Free Flow of Information Act" becomes law.
Jered Wilcox

Senate Revises Media Shield Law for the Better, But It's Still Imperfect - 0 views

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    The Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved a new version of the proposed media shield law, forging a compromise on who should be protected from having to reveal their journalistic sources in court. The amended bill, which is now clear to go for a full vote in the Senate, avoids defining who is a "journalist."
Andrew VanNess

India's Booming Newspaper Industry - 0 views

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    This video describes that while the rest of the world has a major decline in newspaper revenue, India's newspaper industry is actually growing. The youth of India prefer to purchase newspapers, instead of switching over to their digital versions.
Andrew VanNess

New Report Names Newspapers as the Fastest Shrinking Industry in America - 0 views

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    This is a short article involving the statistics of the newspaper industry. It is the fastest shrinking industry in America, even with the development of online sites and apps for tablets / smart phones.
Andrew VanNess

Steal* This Article - 0 views

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    This academic journal talks about how changes are being implemented in the way that paywalls work. Micropayment services are changing the way that newspaper websites and blogger websites will work. In a sense, the more views that a page gets viewed, the blogger / artist / journalist can get a "tip" from the the viewers.
Andrew VanNess

Early American Newspaper Advertisements - 0 views

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    This website shows a few pictures of early American newspaper advertisements. Its interesting to see how far newspapers and ads have come since colonial times. These pics could possibly be used in the past section of our pbworks page.
Andrew VanNess

A Brief History of Advertising in America - 1 views

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    This journal article describes how advertisement has changed over the years and how it first appeared in newspapers. Advertisement is an important part of the development of newspapers as it typically brings in a lot of the money for newspapers to continue and grow.
Andrew VanNess

The Printing Press - 0 views

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    This video from the history channel demonstrates the importance of Johannes Gutenburg and the invention of moveable type with the printing press. While aimed more towards the printing of books, the printing press was definitely a major keystone for newspapers and news itself to be spread.
Savanna Germain

The first Black newspaper, Freedom's Journal - 0 views

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    This article gives a history rundown of the first African American newspaper. It goes through who was involved and what the purpose of the paper was for. This paper gave a voice for the African American people.
Savanna Germain

Our Documents - Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) - 0 views

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    This website discusses what the Sedition Act of 1798 was and gives a brief history on it.
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