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As we count down to the 2024 Election, our team at IMG is readying to cast their #vote and is reflecting on how campaigns have changed and grown. Read our recent blog post by Molly Horan, one of our seasoned public affairs strategists at IMG, on what has changed in the playbook over the years and how communication strategies have evolved to keep up. Read the blog here: https://loom.ly/5ySFHLw. #IssuesGroup

🌟 Showcasing Our Beat Reporting 🌟 I want to highlight some of the unique work we're doing at KSHB / KMCI / The EW Scripps Company. Caitlin Knute came up with the idea of tracking snow removal costs. Then we decided to expand our coverage by utilizing our geographic beat reporters. Some of them gathered numbers on cleanup costs and budget impacts, and then each reporter recorded a brief standup in their coverage area. Thank you to Caitlin for the idea and for driving this project forward -- and to all the reporters who helped make this in-depth piece happen. #Teamwork #Innovation #CommunityImpact #Journalism 🌍📰 Claire B. Elyse Schoenig Megan Abundis Rachel Henderson Lily O'Shea Becker Tod Palmer

This is why many of us choose to work in local media - to bring vital information to our communities. While cities like NYC boast a rich array of local media organizations, most areas lack this diversity. Local broadcasters unites us all in serving our communities. #LocalMedia #CommunityService #New York State Broadcasters Association

#CBSNews, once the Crown Jewel of #NetworkTelevision, when I grew up with #WalterCronkite as "the Most Trusted Man in America!" anchoring the evening news, now down to just 4mil #Viewers Homes industry data reports. That's of 333.3mil #Americans in 133mil #Households, in other words, perhaps a dismal 3% #MarketShare of homes. #NorahODonnell, the #CBSEveningNews #Anchor, finds herself ingloriously demoted to #SeniorCorrespondent, she told insiders this week, as the heir to the prestigious #Cronkite and the less sterling #DanRather, who inflicted #ReputationalDamage on himself. Despite #ODonnell, who's leftish liberalism as a #Journalist is apparent even to me as a #LifelongDemocrat who parked my #Political views when working as a #PoliticalJournalist, my evening routine for decades has been built around tuning in to the 630pm NewsCast. She comes on after the great #WCAU #CBS3 #Philly #Delaware-native Anchor #UkeeWashington, a longtime #FOS (#FriendOfSam)! Kudos to #Ukee -- whose given name is #Ulysses and is a cousin of the even more famous #DenzelWashington -- for never ever having let whatever his personal political views appear to shape his #NewsCoverage. As an admitted lifelong #NewsJunkie, what's really disappointing -- #biased coverage issues aside -- is how few people go to the #legacy #NewsOrganizations for #NewsCoverage, worse less than 600,000 households in the targeted desirable 25-54 years old #Demographic, where the #ConsumerSpending is robust. Until recently, #CBS was reported to be paying Ms. O'Donnell $8mil/yr to service those 4mil or so #American #News-consuming households!

Sports Journalists Day, celebrated on July 2nd each year, honors the dedicated professionals who bring sports events to life through their reporting, analysis, and storytelling. This day recognizes their hard work, passion, and the significant role they play in keeping fans informed and engaged with the latest developments in the sports world.#SportsJournalistsDay #JournalismMatters #SportsReporting #SportsMedia #SportsNews #BehindTheScenes #ThankYouJournalists #SportsCoverage #AthleteInterviews #GameDayReporting #SportsWriters #SportsBroadcasters #SportsAnalysis #BreakingSportsNews #SportsStorytelling #PressBoxLife #JournalismHeroes #InThePressBox #SportsReporters #CelebratingJournalists

From Matt Pearce: "While my colleagues in L.A.’s local news industry put their lives on hold and even their lives on the line to cover the fires in Altadena and the Palisades, the profit-driven tech platforms where many of us now get information sat back as conspiracy theories and hate-mongering about our neighbors’ suffering proliferated. Everything from DEI, BlackRock, Ukraine and “Communist China sabotage teams” are getting play as causes of the fire. "If Silicon Valley was going to create a fix for this problem, it would have done so by now. Instead, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is on Joe Rogan’s show this week saying that “journalists” and “TV anchors” — like the hometown reporters and photographers in Los Angeles covering their own neighborhoods burning down — are a “cultural elite class” that “needs to get repopulated.” Big Tech is telling us loud and clear that it is not going to save us. "Instead, what worked in Los Angeles over the last last week was a lot of good, old-fashioned reporting work, just deployed in new and legacy formats alike. The nonprofit Watch Duty app — the breakout resource of this disaster — became a reliable resource for wildfire information by meshing publicly available data with a team of trained reporters following an editorial code of conduct. As a result, Watch Duty’s team has been more reliable than our public official themselves, who have sent multiple erroneous evacuation alerts to many Angelenos. Mistakes happen in disasters. That’s why we have reporters who follow the professional ethic of “trust, but verify.” "The legacy local media sector, meanwhile — even as its ranks thin by the year — continues playing its bedrock role during a local crisis. Our local news broadcasters have produced incomparable visuals and news-making interviews about the latest on the ground. Our local news photographers have produced stellar work showing the tragedy and heroism of civilians and firefighters on the front lines; they’re not the ones damaging firefighting planes with unauthorized amateur drones in closed disaster zones. When Patrick Soon-Shiong became a source of misinformation on Elon Musk’s X app about the Los Angeles Fire Department’s finances, his own newsroom at the Los Angeles Times corrected the record about an enormously complex budget issue. The traditional press corps will continue playing a central role in deciphering the knotty policy and political issues unfolding around what went wrong in these fires that policymakers will need to confront.

The Real Truth About the Internet and Social Media | Explained by a Photojournalist In this video, a photojournalist addresses the misconceptions and misinformation spread on the internet about him and his work. He shares his perspective, achievements, and calls for better understanding and respect in the online community. #InternetMisconceptions #SocialMediaTruth #MisinformationExposed #PhotojournalismInsights #OnlineCommunity #UnderstandingInfoAge #AchievementsInMedia #RespectfulDialogue #OnlinePerspective #OnlineMisjudgment

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