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NEWS OF THE INDUSTRY
Bay Citizen ends NYT relationship
Merger with CIR said to be approved for May 1
Poynter .org - 11 Apr 2012
Robert Rosenthal, executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting, has confirmed a tweet from The Bay Citizen’s Jeanne Carstensen saying that it is ending its relationship with The New York Times as of April 29. The change does not come without warning, as CIR aims to narrow the focus of the San Francisco nonprofit news site after the two agreed last month to merge. The California attorney general approved the merger this week, Rosenthal said, but this decision was made by The Bay Citizen and the Times. The final decision came over the weekend after discussions over the past several weeks.
FUTURE OF NEWS
Does nonprofit model hurt journalism?
Critics raising questions in Texas
Stephen Robert Morse - - 29 Mar 2012
Led by the success of the nonprofit news model represented by The Texas Tribune, the decline of the for-profit news ecosystem is being accelerated by competition from the nonprofit world. The role of a nonprofit should be to help increase the quality of journalism, but not at the expense of for-profit organizations.
Merger spells changes at Bay Citizen
No more breaking news coverage
Nieman Journalism Lab - 28 Mar 2012
The merger of Bay Citizen with the Center for Investigative Reporting announced yesterday — with CIR forces coming out in charge — will mean structural changes for the nonprofit outlets. But it’ll also mean editorial changes, one of them being a reduction in covering the same big daily stories and subjects the competition is — at least not in the same way.
FUTURE OF NEWS
Bay Citizen announces merger scheme with CIR
Plan would end startup's breaking news reporting
Dan Fost - The Bay Citizen - 28 Mar 2012
The Bay Citizen on Tuesday enters the second phase of its young life, surrendering its independence in exchange for a partnership with an older, more established journalistic entity as its parent organization merges with the Center for Investigative Reporting. The focus of the combined organization will be on investigative and accountability journalism, with a staff of approximately 70.
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Guild and CWA offer college scholarships
Applications are being taken for our annual Media Workers Guild Scholarship Program.
The program is financed mainly by the generous contributions of our Retiree Unit members. Each year, we give out $500 to the top applicants, judged by an independent panel of journalists. Dependent family members of any Media Workers Guild unit member in good standing are eligible. (Contact us if you have questions about membership or eligibility.)
The program is aimed at graduating high school seniors entering college in the fall. We will also consider current college graduates who have not previously applied for one of our grants.
Download the application here. (You can also find it under the pull-down RESOURCES tab at the top of the mediaworkers.org website.) The deadline is May 15.
Our members also are eligible for the CWA Joe Beirne Scholarship Program. The CWA deadline is April 30.
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FUTURE OF NEWS
In California media, it's not change, it's chaos
Drama includes CIR-Bay Citizen merger, MediaNews shakeup
Ken Doctor - Nieman Journalism Lab - 25 Feb 2012
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No one can tell what the journalistic landscape of the state may look like in, say, 2014. All we can say with certainty: we’re witnessing the death and life of California news. Who will own the biggest news media? Who will manage the biggest news media? How much of a life in print will be left for newspapers as they go digital? And, of course, how many journalists will be paid to get the news to the state’s 37 million residents and to the rest of the country?
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