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Maybe it will make “Jeopardy!” soon: “This state now offers the most protection for a reporter’s electronic records. ”Is it a liberal bastion like New York, California or Connecticut? As of Thursday, it’s Montana. Indeed, a libertarian Republican state legislator was central to pushing through the first state law anywhere that mandates the media be given notice of third party subpoenas. Source: Guess which state just passed a landmark shield law to protect report

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1802","attributes":{"class":"media-image alignleft","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","width":"431","height":"287","alt":""}}]]According to the Wall Street Journal, today's announcement of Gannett Co.'s agreement to buy Journal Media Group is a sign of a long-awaited round of consolidation.

JMG was created this year from a deal between E.W.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1801","attributes":{"class":"media-image alignnone size-full","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","alt":""}}]]Google held a press event this morning where it announced a new project, Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, that it’s working on with Twitter and a wide array of publishers from The New York Times to BuzzFeed to the BBC to speed up page-load time. The format comes as people are doing more of their reading on mobile ph

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Stacy Allen Speaks Newsroom Victories During the 2015 Texas Legislative Session

  Sometimes, killing a bad bill can be as important as enacting a good one.

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1798","attributes":{"class":"media-image alignleft","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","width":"559","height":"282","alt":""}}]]Call it a platform, call it a content management system, call it an “umbrella of interconnected services” — the set of tools the Post has built for itself is now being licensed to other publishers, who might find it more useful than their alternatives. Source:

New marked copy rules prevent submitting multiple copies if only preprints in editions are different

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1792","attributes":{"class":"media-image alignleft","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","width":"477","height":"329","alt":""}}]]Ever since I was a little kid, I heard people say: “Hey, what’s the big idea?” In most cases, this phrase was a synonym for “What do you think you’re doing?” These were not real questions.

Source: Don't strike out with these sports clichés - Columbia Journalism Review

[[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"1791","attributes":{"class":"media-image alignleft","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","width":"371","height":"248","alt":""}}]]Google and Twitter are working together to help publishers show “instant articles” to people who use their services on mobile phones.The plan, which is supposed to launch with a small group of publishers this fall, is an effort to make it easier for publishers to distribute their stuff on mobile