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It's the latest regional newspaper to cash in on its real estate amid an industry-wide print advertising decline.

The cash will help it pay back a $28 million loan.
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The idea of becoming a "vertically integrated media company" is crumbling.

He's leaving the company at the end of the month.
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"Meeting thousands of talented but stressed-out journalists inspired us to launch 40 Better Hours."

40 Better Hours is a project to improve workplaces in small but meaningful ways.
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"Unfortunately for the Times, the article was largely based on a fake press release."

"It...remains unclear who was behind the trickery."
money.cnn.com|By Dylan Byers

The Watergate stories were reported in the building.

The building is being demolished after the paper moved to a new headquarters.
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"Research, like reporting, is always made stronger by going back and back and back to what you have found."

When The Washington Post won its Pulitzer Prize for national reporting Monday, researcher Julie Tate’s name was among the contributors. Tate has now contributed to nine Pulitzer-winning entri…
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A troubling theory for those who specialize in typing up stories.

...The question is, will..writers get better at doing [video], or will they be replaced with people who don’t need to improve at all?"
gawker.com|By Jordan Sargent

Scientists don't often understand journalists, and vice-versa:

Barriers between journalists and scientists can make journalists’ jobs more difficult, and they can lead to unintentional misinformation and confusion.
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Now that The New Yorker is a contender for the Pulitzers, the feature writing category is way more competitive.

It uses the second person and a how-to guide of sorts.
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Here's a collection of tributes to Prince from newspapers around the world.

1. Even if you have a chance to record an interview, back it up with notes in your notebook. You never know when technology will fail you.

"I'm still shaking."

The unexpected death of music icon Prince did what’s seemed impossible of late: knock the presidential camp into at least momentary cable news irrelevance. As befits this media age, it was TM…
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The second big sale in as many days.

Sale announcement comes one day after the same chain, which recently picked up the Orange County Register and Riverside Press Enterprise at a bankruptcy auction, said it had sold off ...
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Facebook will emphasize reading time and post diversity in its News Feed.

By Moshe Blank, Software Engineer, and Jie Xu, Research Scientist As we work to improve News Feed.
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Our crowdfunding campaign reached 20 percent in just two days! Donate now to support us in giving journalists the skills, resources and inspiration they need to better equip newsrooms to innovate and respond to industry changes:

40 Better Hours is a project to improve workplaces in small but meaningful ways. By funding a week of training full of practical tips, resources and inspiration, you can support newsrooms in becoming more innovative, creative and better equipped to respond to industry changes.
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The man at the center of a bizarre plagiarism scandal speaks out.

He was juggling about 20 stories.
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A breakdown of the best beginnings to the best stories of 2016.

“I did not want to do a ‘Hey, I’m gay' column.'"