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How publishers can overcome loss of Facebook traffic

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Now that Facebook has made clear that it will not be promoting journalism to its users, all of the publishers who were getting much of their traffic there should look elsewhere. ( Frederic Filloux of Monday Note has one of the best analyses of the company's announcement .) What now? Well, there are several tactics and strategies that publishers can take to replace what they have lost (and will lose) from Facebook's pivot away from news. (I have also written about such strategies in Spanish.) 1. A tactic: start an email newsletter with links to your content. Think of it as a walled garden that protects you from Facebook. Daily, weekly, or monthly newsletters create a more intimate relationship with users. Some publications have several on different topics, such as technology, business, public safety, or politics that users can select from. Local news sites in particular can benefit from daily newsletters. The links to your content send users directly to your site, and any ad ...

Where the jobs are for graduates in journalism

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"The new journalism specialties". The graphic shows that 56% of the Spanish journalists surveyed work in media that have community managers, and 30% employ data and traffic analysts. Click to enlarge the graphic. Where will the jobs be for graduates in journalism and communication? The results of a survey of journalists in Spain give some indication. The urgent demand is for people with digital media skills, but more on that in a minute. The Press Association of Madrid 's (abbreviated to APM in Spanish) 2017 survey was sent to 13,500 professionals, and the overall response rate was a respectable 13%. A little more than a third were working in journalism while another third were working in other professions or were retired or semi-retired. The remaining 30 percent were working in communications, mainly advertising and public relations. (News articles about the survey are here , here , and here in Spanish. Disconnect in training The survey results show that the respondent...

The Silence (2019) Movie Review:

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The Silence (2019)  Another film that alludes to the senses of the viewer, or at least tries to play with them. Next to A Quiet Place and Bird Box we get The Silence, in which you must be silent, how the name revealed, because if you get loud, you'll regret it. The film is a book adaptation and therefore not a copy of the other two films, but it still remains in their shadow. The Story of "the silence" movies : story of " The Silence "  A team of researchers is in a cave about to open a shaft. They are uncovering a new species of animal that has been confined there for millions of years. Aggressively and brutally the animals graze the researchers and kill them. The swarm of these strange flying dinosaurs is directed towards the city, where they are attracted by the noise. It quickly makes its rounds in the news and social media. The family Andrews learns about it and they set off to leave the city. During their attempt they stumble on detours and also on a spook...

top 10 best pc games in 2019

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Best Games for PC in 2019: Many don’t realise that despite the existence of smartphones, Xbox and Playstation, PCs are still one of the biggest gaming platforms all across the world. Back in the days when Xboxes and Playstations were being introduced to the gaming world, many another critics sounded their death knell. however some kept it going for a long time and shortly it re-emerged as a powerful gaming platform. In the last decade just about, a large range of games are launched for PCs and because it stands nowadays, most games are launched for all platforms together with PCs. so if you're somebody who plays games on computer, don’t feel any jealous of those playing in alternative platforms since you have a good many range of games to choose from. during this article we have a tendency to are visiting pick the highest 10 games for PCs you'll be able to play today. 1: Fallout 4 best PC game in 2019: In many ways, Fallout 4 is flawed and has glitches, however it overcomes all...

Best Total War Game: Three Kingdoms review: The fight to unite China.

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Best Total War Game: Three Kingdoms review:- Sega and Creative Assembly have produced the most ambitious Total War game to date, offering a mountain of content for ancient Chinese history buffs. total war: three kingdoms (pc) - better than dynasty warriors game The Total War games are around for nearly two decades, arriving under various publishers and spanning each historical and fantastical premises. The most recent entry within the series puts the focus on the {period | the amount} in Chinese history when the dynasty began to crumble and the country was thrown into a sixty-year period of bloody battles. Striking a balance between tactical battles and an empire building campaign, Total War: three Kingdoms offer an exhaustive number of things to try and do that will likely delight series fans and Chinese history buffs. A land of warlords - three kingdoms: total war game:- A land of warlords - three kingdoms. Total War: three Kingdoms offers up a spread of the way to play the game, inc...

'Know your clients, give them what they need'

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Ingelmo: "Clients don't want to wait three hours for a graphic." Manuel Benito Ingelmo has blended his knowledge of data, technology, and journalism to establish a news service with some of the biggest media in Spain as his clients. His data-visualization service, Porcentual.es , just finished its most successful year, and Ingelmo continues to innovate and improve his products. He and a team of two programmers have developed software that pulls data from public databases and produces graphics in minutes for media organizations to embed in their web pages. They can also customize the data geographically so that a newspaper in the city of Seville, for example, can get the latest unemployment figures for its area. "We're very fast," Ingelmo says. "Speed matters. Our clients don't want to wait three hours for a graphic. They want it right now," he told me recently in a Skype interview from his home in Vitoria, northern Spain. Read more �

Fortnite season 9 - The future comes to Tilted Towers.

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Fortnite season 9 is live- top gaming news Fortnite season 9 is here, and it's all about the future. Epic discharged the new season of its popular battle royale game with changes to the theme, new in-game content and alternative changes for players. When does Fortnite season 9 begin: Fortnite season 9 went live Thursday morning when servers were taken down for updates. Once the servers were back, Epic tweeted the new season trailer. According to the trailer, the volcano event that happened on Saturday had a lasting result on the island. the two destroyed areas, tipped Towers and Retail Row, area unit currently replaced with futuristic versions of the locations called neo tilted and Mega Mall. The volcano also modified and is now known as Pressure Plant. fortnite Season 9 will last for the next 10 weeks, and then Fortnite season 10 will start on August. 1, according to fan site Fortnite Intel. What's new in Fortnite season 9? As prominently proven in the Fortnite season 9 traile...