The immigrant population in Texas has grown rapidly in recent decades, reaching 4.5 million in 2014. That puts Texas in a tie with New York for the second largest state immigrant population by size.
Source: Texas immigrant population ties New York's | Pew Research Center
Everyone at a digital media company should be responsible for cybersecurity. Journalists are particularly at risk because much of your work is done outside the office, away from the watchful eyes of the IT shepherds who safeguard your internal network infrastructure. The same could be said for ad salespeople, dealer managers and others in your organization who conduct business in the community. With this in mind, here are three key steps that every news media employee can take to guard against cyber-attacks while at work, on the road, and at home.
Survival, Mr. VandeHei says, depends on giving readers what they really want, how they want it, when they want it, and on not spending too much money producing what they don’t want.
Source: For News Outlets Squeezed From the Middle, It’s Bend or Bust - The New York Times
A big step forward for news bots, new sharing tools, and Facebook Live goes pro.
Source: Here are the important announcements for publishers at Facebook’s F8 keynote » Nieman Journalism Lab
Gannett, Tribune Publishing, McClatchy and Hearst create Nucleus Marketing Solutions
Source: U.S. Newspaper Publishers Form Digital Ad Network - WSJ
Nielsen today announced that Facebook will offer its publishing partners Digital Content Ratings for measurement of its Instant Articles. With Instant Articles, publishers can create fast, interactive articles that are viewed directly in Facebook's mobile app, enhancing the speed and ease of accessing content. Facebook announced it is opening the Instant Articles program to all publishers, including the collaboration with Nielsen for Instant Articles measurement, at its F8 developer conference today in San Francisco
By David Chavern, president & CEO, NAA
In June, the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed increasing the salaries test used to determine if an employee is eligible for overtime from the current threshold of $23,660 to $50,440 annually. This means that employees – such as managers, supervisors and other professionals who are exempt under the Federal Labor Standards Act – would need their annual salaries elevated to $50,440 or be treated as hourly employees that are eligible for overtime.
HEADLINERS FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF AWARD FOR HIGH-IMPACT TEXAS JOURNALISM AUSTIN
(April 6, 2016) —The Headliners Foundation of Texas today announced that the Houston Chronicle’s Brian Rosenthal is the winner of the Foundation’s 2015 Showcase Gold Award for Enterprise and Innovation in Journalism for his series, "How Texas Officials Use Your Money To Help Their Friends."
One of the great – and completely misguided – tropes of the digital age is that “digital ad inventory is infinite.” The thinking goes that ad inventory in more traditional media is limited by physical space (print) or time (TV and radio), and that this scarcity supports ad values. The Internet, in contrast, has vast and undefined borders – and thus the supply of ad inventory is “infinite.” Infinite supply means that value of digital advertising eventually gets driven to zero, or close to it.
