In this issue:
Sheila Rayam to lead Gannett's Mohawk Valley newsrooms; Newspaper producers vow to fight recycling legislation; NYNPA's Mary Miller, Members of the Local Press and High School Panelists Discuss the "Fight for Truth in Media"; The Citizen is producing a Podcast - 'Covering COVID: One Year of Pandemic Reporting'; News Corp Announces Acquisition of Investor’s Business Daily; Frank LoMonte Elected to Prestigious American Bar Foundation Fellowship; The DEI Coalition Slack formally launched and began accepting members this week.; Plus upcoming events and available training webinars.
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Sheila Rayam to lead Gannett's Mohawk Valley newsrooms
From uticaod.com - Longtime Rochester journalist Sheila Rayam becomes the new newsroom leader of Gannett Co.'s Mohawk Valley operations in April.
Rayam has been chosen to serve as the executive editor of the Observer-Dispatch and of The Times Telegram, Gannett New York State Editor Michael Kilian announced Monday.
“I’m honored and excited about this new role,” Rayam said. “I have the same passion for news and storytelling today that I had when I first walked into the Democrat and Chronicle in 1990. I can’t wait to get to work with my colleagues in Utica.”
She is the first Black executive editor of either newspaper. Previously, LaBarbara "Bobbi" Bowman had served for more than four years in the O-D newsroom's No. 2 position — managing editor — during the second half of the 1990s.
"Sheila is among our industry's leaders in spurring effective community engagement involving the entire newsroom team," Kilian said. More
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Newspaper producers vow to fight recycling legislation
From adirondackdailyenterprise.com - State press leaders said Friday they will continue to fight proposed legislation included in the Senate’s one-house proposed budget bill last week that could impact local and community newspapers.
Sen. Todd Kaminsky, D-9, sponsors the bill, called the Extended Producer Responsibility Act, to require any producer of covered materials to implement strategies to promote recycling, the reuse and recovery of packaging and paper products.
Producers of waste materials would be required to be a Producer Responsibility Organization to set a price based on product weight and material types. The PRO would then contract with municipalities to help pay community recycling fees.
“This will create that better economy where producers will want to come up with less packaging and more eco-friendly packaging,” Kaminsky said Friday. “Producers right now put packaging, paper and plastic into the world without any concern of what happened to it once it leaves them. There’s no concern to create less environmentally damaging packaging. No one is really thinking about that, and our municipalities are left to deal with that. There are no markets left to sell it to for recycling.”
Companies will have to contribute to PRO costs to help compensate municipal budgets. More
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NYNPA's Mary Miller, Members of the Local Press and High School Panelists Discuss the "Fight for Truth in Media"
On Tues., March 23, North Country Community College hosted a virtual panel discussion presented by the New York Newspapers Foundation's News Media Literacy/NIE program. The event was made possible through funding from the Cloudsplitter Foundation. The evening's panelists included:
- Peter Crowley, editor of The Adirondack Daily Enterprise
- Andy Flynn, editor for The Lake Placid News
- Brandon Loomis, editor for the Adirondack Explorer
- Emily Russell, reporter for North Country Public Radio
Student panelists:
- Astrid St. Pierre, from Lake Placid High School
- Reuben Bernstein, from Saranac Lake High School
- Libby Gillis, from Tupper Lake High School
We extend a sincere THANK YOU to all involved for sharing your time in making this a successful, educational, and enjoyable evening!
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The Citizen is producing a Podcast - 'Covering COVID: One Year of Pandemic Reporting'
From auburnpub.com - The Citizen launched a podcast miniseries, "Covering COVID: One Year of Pandemic Reporting," detailing how our newsroom covered COVID-19 and its effects on our community.
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News Corp Announces Acquisition of Investor’s Business Daily
From News Corp press release - News Corp announced Thursday it has agreed to acquire Investor’s Business Daily from O’Neil Capital Management. The high margin, profitable and rapidly growing digital first financial news and research business will be operated by Dow Jones, a News Corp subsidiary.
Investor’s Business Daily (IBD), which operates the Investors.com website, was founded by William J. O’Neil in 1984 and has experienced double-digit revenue growth over the past several years, with digital representing more than 90% of IBD’s revenues and subscriptions.
A majority of IBD’s annual revenues and profits come from the company’s unique investor tools, research and analysis products, which have experienced sharp increases in popularity and profitability as more and more investors seek out quality information through digital products to guide their financial decisions. More
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Frank LoMonte Elected to Prestigious American Bar Foundation Fellowship
From brechner.org - Frank LoMonte, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Brechner Center for Freedom of Information director, was recently elected to join the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.
The Fellows comprise a global honorary society of attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession and to the welfare of their communities. Membership in the Fellows is limited to one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in each jurisdiction.
Fellows are recommended by their peers and elected by the board of the American Bar Foundation (ABF). Established in 1955, Fellows support the research of the ABF through annual contributions and sponsor seminars and events of direct relevance to the legal profession. Members hail from nearly 40 countries and hold a variety of influential roles.
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The DEI Coalition Slack formally launched and began accepting members this week
From opennews - DEI Coalition For Anti-Racist, Equitable, And Just Newsrooms
Together,
OpenNews and over 100 members of the journalism community have co-created a digital community space dedicated to sharing knowledge and taking concrete action in service of a more anti-racist, equitable and just journalism industry. Together, members can use this shared community space, hosted on Slack, to tackle challenging conversations, create new resources, equip themselves to be better allies and advocates, and together, change newsroom policies, systems, and culture for the better.
Membership for the DEI Coalition Slack community space is free, and if you identify as a journalist, work in the journalism industry, and/or work in a space that directly supports journalism, you’re eligible to join. More
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For Local Newsrooms, Philanthropy Isn’t Charity—It’s Revenue
From insidephilanthropy.com - Across philanthropy, there’s a growing recognition that local journalism has an important role to play in strengthening our communities, fighting polarization and misinformation, and helping communities more effectively address healthcare inequities, underperforming schools and other pressing problems. And philanthropists increasingly see that this critical information ecosystem is at risk.
Yet I frequently hear a version of this back-handed compliment about nonprofit local news sites: “These newsrooms are doing great journalism, and philanthropy can certainly bridge the gap—until we figure out a new business model for local news.”
Here’s the thing: Adding philanthropy is the new business model for local news that we’ve been waiting for. And frankly, if executed properly, it could be a better model than the one we had before—for many types of local journalism should really be thought of as a public good. As the traditional local news models collapse, we need to build philanthropy into the mix if we are to have healthy, well-informed communities.
The third revenue stream
The key is thinking of philanthropy not as lightning-bolt-from-the-sky charity, or as the only type of support, but rather as the third revenue stream. It needs to be developed as a persistent, ongoing source of income, alongside subscriptions and advertising, the two primary sources of local news support to date. More
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UPCOMING WEBINARS AND EVENTS:
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In a New York Minute is the weekly electronic newsletter of NYNPA, providing you with member news, money-saving and money-generating ideas, and upcoming events. If you would like to contribute to this newsletter please reply to this e-mail or contact mmiller@nynpa.com. For more on NYNPA please visit us on the web at www.nynpa.com.
Mary Miller
Education Services Director
New York News Publishers Association
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