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You might have heard: 1 out of every 5 reporting jobs is in Washington, D.C., New York City or Los Angeles, with job options dwindling for journalists in other parts of the country and compensation that is unlikely to keep up with inflation
But did you know: Journalists in the NYC and DC metropolitan areas earn 22 percent more than the median income (Poynter)
Whether you’re paid poorly as a journalist depends on where you live: A study by Poynter found that journalists make about the median salary in 14 states, more than the median salary in 13 states, and below the median salary in 23 states. The states where journalists earned above the median salary include Rhode Island, Nevada and Utah, with clusters in the southeastern and southwestern regions. In the New York and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas that employ many journalists, journalists earned 22 percent more than the median income. However, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, journalists’ salaries were 2 percent less than the median.
+ Noted: Variety will publish a 106-page special issue on the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision, which will also be made available today on Variety.com (Variety); Gannett starts its new post-spinoff era with plans for expansion by acquisitions (Poynter); Huffington Post aims to increase its contributors from 100,000 to 1 million through a new self-publishing platform that requires one-time editor approval (Capital New York); The Lo-Down, a local website and monthly magazine covering the Lower East Side, surpasses crowdfunding goal to fund expanded small business coverage (Capital New York)
Quartz’s lessons from its first two years of Chartbuilder: It’s been a successful platform to teach reporters new skills (Quartz Things)
Two years after the release of its open-source charting tool Chartbuilder, Quartz shares the lessons its team has learned from maintaining and using the software. The idea has caught on with other news organizations, with NYT, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg building their own custom software, and NPR, CNBC and The New Yorker creating customized versions of Chartbuilder. And at Quartz, it’s been successful in teaching reporters new skills: “It has allowed them to gain further control over the crafting of their content, and removed a burden from the [data visualization] team.”
+ Resources for reporting on the same-sex marriage ruling, including guidelines from the Association of LGBT Journalists and a look at how the issue was covered in the past (Poynter)
Wall Street Journal will shut down its India edition, but its India-focused blog will remain (MediaNama)
As it plans to relaunch its Asia and Europe editions as a new single edition, The Wall Street Journal will shutter its India edition. The India website will be merged into WSJ’s global website, and its India-focused blog India RealTime will remain. The new edition of WSJ is expected to launch in September and “will replace the current compact newspapers in Europe and Asia.”
Amazon and Google are developing custom fonts to make reading on screens more enjoyable for users (Wall Street Journal)
To make using e-readers easier, Amazon and Google are developing new fonts designed to make reading on a screen easier on the eyes. Using eye-tracking, Amazon determined that its new font, Bookerly, will allow users to read 2 percent faster than its previous default font. Bookerly uses curves and serifs that become thicker from left to right, which lead the eye forward as it reads. Paul Carlos, co-owner of New York design studio Pure+Applied, said of Amazon’s new font: “It feels like it’s been written by a person rather than a machine.”
News organizations, including BuzzFeed and Huffington Post, change their Twitter avatars to rainbow flags in support of same-sex marriages (Politico)
After Friday’s Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriages, several news organizations including Mashable and BuzzFeed changed their Twitter avatars to feature the rainbow flag. Dylan Byers says this shows how comfortable some news organizations have become in backing certain political causes. However, Byers says it would be hard to imagine many legacy news outlets such as NYT or WSJ and some digital-first organizations such as Politico or Bloomberg News taking a similar stance.
A lesson from Circa: Its backend placed news events into a broader network of stories, providing ‘a structured vision of the larger narratives’ (Nieman Lab)
Mark Coddington says Circa’s atomization may have been just as influential on its production of news as it was on its presentation of news. Circa kept track of stories through a systematic branch system with each story part of a “main branch,” splitting off into a variety of stories. Coddington says: “When encountering a new news event or development, they didn’t just have to ask, as every other journalist does, ‘Is this news?’ As part of that question, they also had to ask, ‘What story does this fit into?’”
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