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When a poor person clicks on the web they may get ads for predatory job sites and predatory loans.    Nieman Labs reports that those with lower income aren’t getting quality news and information.

Journalists can learn a lot from “community organizers”.   That doesn’t mean you are becoming an activist.  The community journalism non-profit Free Press is out with a report which shows how newsrooms can use the strategies of the community organizers to find out how to better reach under-served parts of your town.  More  

Poynter has an interesting post on its web site.    It gathered a collection of tweets about reporters’ jobs before journalism. Those reporters tell about those early jobs’ impact on their current reporting.

American AM/FM listening is holding strong according to a recent study by Pew.  However, TV is getting hit by the web.  The latest comes in this story from Nieman Lab.

IBANewsroom launched in June.   An important study for newsrooms came out in May.  RTNDA released its annual salary survey. We revisit it in case you missed it. It showed an overall increase in pay in newsrooms.

A couple of editorial organizations have released a guide to help protect journalists.     The Associated Press Media Editors & The American Society of News Editors put out the tip sheet Newsroom Safety Best Practices.

Even when people think a story may be fake, there is still a chance they will pass it along on social media. Nieman Lab has the details in its latest “Real News About Fake News”.

In light of today’s shootings in Maryland, here is a link to some guidelines in covering mass shootings.   You can also download a helpful guide at this site

If you have a few minutes, this article will give you a better explanation of the types of bias that leads to the presence of fake news, pseudo-science and other scams that show up in your news feed.   This reprint of a study from Indiana University is provided by the Nieman Lab at Harvard  More  

News organizations are often shrinking.   How many times as you said, ” I want to do this story, but he just don’t have the time?”.  Working with other news outlets might be a solution to help you really get your good reporting idea across and to more people.

ProPublica Illinois has a some examples of success stories of collaboration between two media groups that can raise the spotlight on the issue and your news outlet.  More