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‘Enough is enough’ — a community-focused approach to gun violence

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From our ‘Greatest Hits’ collection: a simple lesson in understanding your audience

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Building a Telemundo affiliate from scratch

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It’s anchors away — away from the studio and back to the street

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Does every local TV newsroom need a ‘plus’?

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How’s your story strength today?

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All news may be local — but more and more of it is going national

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Whodunit? An Arizona newsroom makes crime pay

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How a ‘digital first’ station is breaking new ground — on television

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WMC Plus is a big idea that started close to home — and plans to stay there

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Coming back to the newsroom

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A new way to cover underrepresented communities

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Envisioning the post-pandemic newsroom

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Is there an ‘active, engaged, working journalist anchor’ in your newsroom?

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Is your best idea for newsroom innovation sitting just down the hall?

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The story behind The Story: one year later

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A news station group goes big to build a healthier America

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An extraordinary year for local TV newsrooms

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What’s the ‘lifetime value’ of your newsroom’s most loyal fans?

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How do you transform a legacy brand?

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A new research study puts solutions journalism to the test

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Sinclair points a small team at a big story — and a bold experiment pays off

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Your Take turns the news ‘outside in’ by putting viewers in the spotlight

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Innovating during a weather emergency

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What do late-news viewers really want?

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‘Investigative solutions journalists’ test a new model for enterprise reporting

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Breaking the mold on the late news

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Your election plan is toast: Why the 2020 vote demands a different approach

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True or False? VERIFY is an idea whose time has come

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How can you get younger viewers to watch a linear news program?

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BLACK OWNED — The story behind a new community connection

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Beyond ‘like-bait’

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Could your newsroom use another 4,500 journalists?

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5 of our most-read stories on local newsroom innovation in 2020

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Can a reporter be ‘authentic’ and objective at the same time?

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7 Takeaways From a Candid Conversation About Protest Coverage

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How do you say “Supporting our community” — en español?

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Post-pandemic news: 7 lessons we can’t afford to forget

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Will The Rebound change TV news even after COVID-19 is gone?

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How to find COVID-19 stories ‘hiding in plain sight’

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A Positive Side Effect of COVID-19: Experiments in Storytelling

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COVID-19 triggers a candid conversation about race

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Local TV News Surges as Trusted Source During Coronavirus

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Hey COVID-19 — Meet Harvey ‘17!

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Three Ways to Use Data to Drive Better COVID-19 Coverage

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A new way to track coronavirus

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The 3 best things local newsrooms are doing to serve their communities

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Want to reach new viewers? Why not try — television?

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Breaking news — at the push of a button

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The Biggest Story Your Newsroom Isn’t Ready to Cover

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Why Can’t Every Reporter Be More Like the I-Team?

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“The Biggest Risk of All” — Transforming a Legacy Newscast

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Forecasting the future of weather reporting

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Producing producers

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Icebreaker

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ALTERED STATES

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5 Culture-Killing Phrases Smart Newsrooms Will Stop Saying in 2020

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The news quiz: applying gaming to newscast engagement

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We produced a newscast without anchors. Here’s how.

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Reporting that hits people where they live — by reporters who live there too

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A Venerable Local TV Magazine Hands the Keys to a New Generation

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Multilingual reporting for an increasingly bilingual audience

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A New York Station Tries to Reinvent the Late News

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Is Solutions Journalism the right solution for your newsroom?

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Fitting a planet-sized story into a local newscast

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“It’s time to become indispensable.”

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Lessons from a Year on the Front Lines of Innovation

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We tested transparency reporting

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UNC-TV takes on a critical public-safety problem

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An upstart 24/7 cable channel tries to rewrite the rules for local TV news

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Two TV Newsrooms in Denver Prove That Collaboration Doesn’t Have to Be Rocky

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A corps of talented young journalists — coming to a news desert near you

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Table Stakes for TV news: What 10 local stations learned from challenge-based innovation

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Why a competitive NBC news director decided to go for Broke in Philly

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The not-so-secret weapon in the 2020 campaign

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The Paolini Perspective

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Does Double the Length Mean Double the Shelf Life in Local TV News?

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How simple lists can improve local journalism

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The Offer She Couldn’t Refuse

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In search of Swiss Army knives for news

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Changing the culture is a challenge, even when it’s the boss’s idea

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We let our audience ‘Choose the News.’ Here’s what happened.

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Scripps CEO Adam Symson: “Our product has to be either necessary or lovable”

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5 Takeaways from NAB 2019

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Greta Van Susteren’s Innovative New Show Will Draw on Local Know-How

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Change your tools to change your news

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In Praise of Looking Foolish: Lessons from WTOL-TV’S ‘School Day’ Video

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A New York news director becomes “part coach, part guru” to change an entrenched culture

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KSAT adds a streaming 9 PM newscast on its website and OTT platforms

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“You can’t do it alone any more”

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Show your work to restore trust in news

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A new study suggests the right track may be closer than you think

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Sinclair’s SOAR franchise finds another home on STIRR platform

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KXLY Uses Drone Technology to Create a Unique Weekly Feature

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KUSA’s Next With Kyle Clark is a “refreshing” example of innovation’s risks — and rewards.

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Why Every Local TV Newsroom Needs a Zodiac Project

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The Best New Idea for Breaking the Mold May Be 50 Years Old

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InvestigateTV’s bet: If you build it, they will come

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Would you believe this?

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Meet your new partner: A Mississippi experiment in collaborative journalism

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Top 9 Takeaways from NewsTECH Forum

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