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Shan Wang is a staff writer at the Lab. She previously worked in editorial at Harvard University Press, and has reported for Boston.com and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. One of the first news stories she ever wrote was about Muggle Quidditch for The Harvard Crimson. She grew up in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and is a Ray Allen devotee.

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May 3, 2018

Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation is coming May 25. How have news publishers prepared?

What is it? Why is it happening? Who does it affect? Who does it benefit? What work does becoming compliant with this law involve?

Facebook has started boosting content from news outlets based on how much they’re trusted. Oh, and it won’t be paying publishers a yearly fee to use their content.

April 26, 2018

How much of what local TV stations post to Facebook is actually local? For many, right around half

Stations in our sample posted an an average of just over 50 percent local content, using an an extremely generous threshold for “local” content.

What keeps local journalists in Europe up at night? Consolidation, the duopoly, and retaining new staff

Goodbye to yet another digital publication: UK-based The Debrief shuts down as a standalone site

April 23, 2018

Wellness apps, but for news: Can Neva Labs build a news reading experience that feels healthy?

“If you took away advertising from the platforms we have currently, if you took away the need to addict people and harvest their data and keep them refreshing their pages, what would that experience look like?”

Here’s what you need to know to build successful paid newsletters, popup newsletters, morning digests, and community newsletters

April 12, 2018

Here’s how The New York Times is trying to preserve millions of old pages the way they were originally published

“We like to think of ourselves as the paper of record, but then it’s important that we actually keep those records.”

April 11, 2018

The Dutch newsletter platform Revue, with around 30,000 users, is opening up subscription features

Revue pitches an easy-to-use authoring interface with many small but useful additional features, all developed together with or as requests from its users.

April 9, 2018

Facebook and Twitter are opening up a bit to academic researchers, so platforms “can make better decisions”

A limited group of academics will be given access to some Facebook data.

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