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Two Years of Cooperative Media in New Jersey

Posted on by Debbie Galant, Associate Director, Center for Cooperative Media

It started with a simple premise: News organizations, working together, might be able to achieve some useful economies. It’s the same impulse that led to the creation of the Associated Press during the Mexican-American War in 1846. Only in this … Continue reading

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Pew: News Industry in Crisis

Posted on by Debbie Galant, Director, NJ News Commons

The state of the news business is lousy.  A week after the much-revered Boston Phoenix threw in the towel that’s hardly surprising news, but a new report from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism is packed with statistics showing … Continue reading

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It’s Time for Journalists to Learn Math

Posted on by Debbie Galant, Director, NJ News Commons

Watching someone like Matt Ericson of the New York Times show off the fabulous data visualizations that his department makes is a little like watching a master magician. What is there, after all, to pulling a rabbit out of a … Continue reading

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Hack Jersey: Celebrating Creativity in Journalism

Posted on by Debbie Galant, Director, NJ News Commons

The decline of the American newspaper is generally seen as a tragedy of modern journalism. The villain in the story is the internet, that great disruptor — which, by the way, has disrupted the businesses of book publishing, real estate, … Continue reading

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