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Issue: #436
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June 16, 2017
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A court security officer handcuffed a reporter for Syracuse.com and The Post-Standard this morning after the reporter took pictures of an arrest in the hallway of the Onondaga County Courthouse.
The New York state court officer ordered the reporter, Douglass Dowty, to turn over his cell phone then handcuffed him about 10:45 a.m.
Dowty's hands were cuffed behind his back for about five minutes and he remained in police custody for 10 minutes before other court officers released him.
Dowty was not charged.
The state's top court security official, Chief Michael Magliano, was quickly notified about the incident, according to a spokesman for the state Office of Court Administration in New York City.
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The New York Times Ranked Top News Media for Affluent Europeans
From The New York Times Press Release
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According to the results of the 2017 Ipsos Affluent Europe Survey (Affluent 17), released today, more affluent Europeans visited The New York Times digital platforms over the past 12 months than any other news media outlet. Ipsos, a market research firm and industry benchmark, measured The New York Times's affluent European audience at 8,814,000. The survey comprised of a representative sample of main income earners ages 18 to 74 in the top 20% of households, defined by household income, in 17 European countries.
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From Gannett Press Release -
Nine philanthropic organizations from across the country will receive charitable grants from Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK and Gannett Foundation as the winners of the company's
"A Community Thrives"
social impact program.
Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK launched
"A Community Thrives"
(ACT) this year to focus on funding great ideas in its communities across the country. Hundreds of individuals and groups submitted ideas via video explaining how their project would have a positive impact on their community. The winners offer creative solutions to addressing their communities needs and interests.
"Our purpose at Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK is built on strengthening and empowering the communities we serve. 'A Community Thrives' feeds that mission by enabling people in our communities to surface the issues important to them that a grant from this program can impact in meaningful way," said Andy Yost, chief marketing officer of Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK.
One of the nine funded projects was awarded to Art at the Crossroads in Poughkeepsie. More
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Mike McAndrew tweeted this photo with the above announcement on June 9, 2017.
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From Poynter - The Associated Press will use an application from Microsoft to give its members the ability to create localized stories using data prepared by its national team, the news cooperative announced Wednesday.
Troy Thibodeaux, who leads the AP's data team, said he hopes this will be a major step forward for data journalism in general.
Even though newsrooms are hungry for journalists with data skills, a lot of smaller outlets don't have the capacity to hire data reporters or produce graphics, he said.
"This lets them do data journalism in the midst of their normal workflows, which has been really positive," Thibodeaux said.
The software and training will allow reporters to take a slice of their own local data, visualize it in charts, graphs and maps and share it with their readers. The AP chose an application called Power BI, a rather new Microsoft program, because it allows for rendering complicated graphics very quickly, Thibodeaux said.
The project faced its first public test last night, as the AP offered
an interactive map of the Virginia gubernatorial primary results - a visual, Thibodeaux said, that would have taken too long to create without Power BI.
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