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How Publishers are Exploring Alternative Routes to Fund Journalism

In an era where print advertising revenue continues to decline rapidly and the lion’s share of digital advertising dollars are sucked up by Google and Facebook, it’s more important than ever for news organizations to focus on developing as many revenue streams as possible.
One thing is clear—there is no one-size-fits-all model that will rescue news organizations and provide the fertile ground for local news coverage to continue out into the distant future. But executives can take a look around and borrow ideas from what’s actually working out there for some news organizations.

Free content, tools and funding to help your newsroom cover the coronavirus

Recognizing that newsrooms have very little time to explore these opportunities, American Press Institute's feature focuses on:
• tools that you can easily embed in your existing workflow and platforms coronavirus content that your newsroom can republish for free
• at-a-glance summaries of new grants so that you can see whether you’re eligible, the deadline to apply, and what’s involved in the application process
• relief funding for individual journalists who are experiencing financial hardship as a result of the pandemic.

#AloneTogether Ad PSAs – Ad Council

The News Media Alliance has partnered with the Ad Council to provide print and digital PSAs for newspapers’ use to help raise awareness about the importance of practicing social distancing during the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.

Click here to see and download the ads.

COVID-19 Effects on re-qualification efforts for periodicals

USPS is providing a six-month extension for renewal of requesters during the COVID-19 pandemic. Publishers of requester publications, in particular, have a respite from bringing expiring requests up to date. See full details here.

The coronavirus is the story of our lifetime. Here are resources, training and funding to help your newsroom tell it

Poynter provides a list of useful resources from different sources.

To see the article, click here.

Free coronavirus content available for print sections, social media

Fox Print & Creative Publishing is sharing free  contest, 12-page tabs and several sizes of broadsheets featuring information about helping communities stay safe from spreading COVID-19.

To see and download the content, click here.

AP makes coronavirus dataset available to all

AP’s county-level U.S. coronavirus data is now publicly available through the data.world platform.

AP uses data collected by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering as its source for COVID-19 cases and deaths.

For more information, click here.

Tip sheet: Newsroom Safety Best practices

Following the tragic June 28 shooting in the Capital Gazette newsroom in  Annapolis, Maryland, the American Society of News Editors and Associated Press Media Editors assembled a tip sheet on Newsroom Safety Best Practices.
Th information is posted as a resource on the Texas Press Association website. Click here to access it.

New reports from the Texas Demographic Center

The Texas Demographic Center keeps tabs on just about everything anybody would want to know about Texas: Demographics, socioeconomic characteristics, migration and immigration and population growth. 
Reporters looking for data on individual counties can find some resources here.

 

How To Detect Fake News With These Tools and Techniques

Through links to studies and reports as well as applications, journalism educators share several concrete tools readers can use to detect fake news. 
A critical thinking model is provided to show how using cognitive skills to think through content, analyze and make a decision as to what constitutes a fake story is the best method of detecting fake news.
However, there are other tools being created every day to combat this issue, like the Media Bias/Fact Check extension for Google Chrome, BS Detector, Fake News Check, Baloney Detector, Source Inspector and Fake News Blocker.

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