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Welcome To Newsroom Magazine
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Thanks To You We're Growing Faster Than Ever Before
Chances are you've noticed that Newsroom Magazine is a very different publication.
We care about journalism -- and we're well aware many other organizations do it far better than we.
Our editorial standards, rules of custody, and skeptical editing for everything we produce, disseminate or expose to public viewing reflects a seriousness of purpose.
Six years after our founding, Newsroom Magazine continues to evolve the online publishing and preservation model we pioneered.
There is good news to share: Newsroom Magazine is is thriving.
And some less good news: Our limited resources, both journalistically and financially, are limiting our expansion of content.
Online News Preservation
In the six years since its founding, Newsroom Magazine has extended the field of news publishing into previously uncharted areas.
We take a long range view of news -- one that considers both timeliness and historical merit.
What we do, and how we do it, was not possible in the print media era -- for our content is both timely and timeless in the sense that we share the power of immediacy with all online media plus the perseverance of an encyclopedia.
Newsroom Magazine's publishing model goes beyond immediacy -- for unlike the newspaper era -- what we publish is permanently preserved. And tagged, indexed, and constantly updated by automated sitemap sharing with Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, Sogou, Ewatch, Alexa, Facebook, and others at home and far away.
All of our content, is meant to be preserved. Thanks to the capture and storage of our content at Google, including all updates and changes, and full collection archiving by the U.S. Internet Archives, everything we say, write, opine -- whether wise, foolish, or inconsequential-- is preserved.
Newsroom Magazine content remains forever online, searchable and accessible 24 hours a day worldwide.
What's Hot Is Rarely What Matters
What we publish today is rarely as timely as the more traditional publications and online newspapers. What we choose to publish, sometimes days or months after a story first breaks, or on a subject neglected by most commercial media, is chosen to reflect one aspect of an ongoing reality for long term preservation.
From a handful of English-only readers when we published our first article -- the 1958 Edward R. Murrow speech before the Radio Television Directors Association in Chicago -- we have grown and wizened about our responsibilities to our readers and our own limitations and shortfalls.
Our most read article so far this year, The Adventures Of Bernie In Wonderland, was published November 23rd, 2009. The article consists of the unexpurgated SEC interview of Harry Markopolos in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi swindle case. It is not very interesting reading and it is very long -- but we published it in the belief that what it revealed was important and unlikely to remain online in its original format.
Newsroom Magazine's Storehouse Grows Every Day
The number of publications who devote themselves to publishing credible, responsible and probative content for posterity has dwindled.
Today Newsroom Magazine publishes a storehouse of credible, probative and relevant content -- well over 5000 articles including commentaries, essays, definitions, photographs, stories, reviews, discussions, tutorials, and logical explanations.
Our readership is nearly three times was it was only last year. Few might come to our content for entertainment -- for our purpose is otherwise.
If You Publish, They Will Come
We are read on Capitol Hill, along K Street, and in the halls of government inside the beltway and around the world.
We are read daily on college campuses at home and abroad. We're visited from military ships at sea. We serve law-firms, major corporations, Wall Street the UK Parliament, state governments and cities with credible useful information.
Some of the world's most prestigious news organizations use Newsroom Magazine for fact-checking.
Government Information Unfiltered, Sometimes Imperfect
The amount of official news proffered each day by government, whether at home or abroad, is accelerating. Some of it newsworthy, most of it not.
Our job is to thoughtfully choose what's worthy of the attention of our readers.
About 1% of government issued news we receive each day qualifies as newsworthy. Only the most relevant, or reflective of government at its best, or at its worst, or evidence of overreach, or ineptitude makes it newsworthy.
We leave the issue of deciding which if any of these qualifications applies to what we publish up to the reader.
Formatted For People On The Go, Or On The Hunt
All of our government news content includes above the headline call out meant to convey the principal facts, action or information for those with little time to read a long document.
Our job is to carefully and skeptically choose relevant governmental content for our readers -- and to include the unexpurgated original source material, whose chain of custody we control.
Online Editorial Standards, Ethics And Purpose
Our commitment to time-honored journalistic standards and a clear statement about the ethics to which we agree to be held today and tomorrow, Newsroom Magazine began publication when the Internet was young -- 2006.
Our prime mission then, as now, is to publish non political ideas, definitions, essays and editorials.
To speak to the state of this honorable calling.
And to inform the public about those things, events and ideas that matter most to us all.
Today, tomorrow, forever.
Editorial Standards & Policies
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… by the summer of 2012, Google’s handing of personal information, data mining activities and/or cookie deployment were no longer substantially in compliance with Newsroom Publishing’s Privacy Statement.
Robert W. Butche, Publisher
Washington
Responsibility, Trust And Disclosure
Newsroom Publishing discontinued participation in Google’s Anayltics and data capture programs in November, 2012. A routine review of our published standards and practices statements and disclosures in April of 2013 revealed that we had not deleted Google references contained in our statement on personal privacy. All such references have now been removed.
Our decision to disassociate this publication from Google’s online data mining activities was predicated on two principle areas of conflict between Google’s current business model and this publication’s standards and practices.
In the year prior to our decision to end our cooperative relationship with Google, including participation in the company’s Analytics program, Google effectuated unilateral changes in its relationship with both its customer users and content providers including Newsroom Magazine. As a result, by the summer of 2012, Google’s handing of personal information, data mining activities and/or cookie deployment were no longer substantially in compliance with Newsroom Publishing’s Privacy Statement.
While there was a period when our privacy policies and those published by Google were largely in agreement, we found Google’s sharpening focus on advertising values and data capture for internal monetization and/or external sale or sharing, an unnecessary and unwanted invasion of Newsroom Magazine reader’s privacy.
Newsroom Magazine does not at any time retrieve any information from your computer.
Our consideration of the issues raised by Google’s actions and activities included an examination of Google’s public statement on its data capture and privacy policies. [ Google's Privacy Statement ]
We are not persuaded to believe that our decision will protect anyone from Google’s data mining and monetizing — only that what Newsroom Publishing states to be our policy is consistent with our actions.
Newsroom Magazine does not use cookies to store any information or to track your actions over time or across any other websites.
Our privacy policy contains two critically important statements about what information we capture from our visitors and our conscious decision not to store any information in cookie format on a public visitor’s workstation or mobile device. Newsroom Publishing’s long standing public disclosure statements concerning data mining and cookie placement adjoin this text in green shaded sidebars.
Our privacy policies are an extension of this publication’s ongoing efforts to earn and maintain a trust relationship with those who come to our news and information sites for probative, responsible and credible content. Our responsibilities are to create, select, choose, edit and publish content worthy of trust.
To be successful we must earn that trust every day, in everything we publish. We fully understand that the reader will determine whether or not we live up to our lofty intentions.
Our decision to abandon participation in Google Analytics, and to forgo their AdSence automated advertising revenue stream, is recognition, on our part, that continuing a relationship with Google that was, or had become, contra to Newsroom Publishing’s stated standards and practices, no longer met our needs or those of our readers.
Newsroom Publishing did not notify Google of our withdrawal from Google Analytics, nor announce our decision last year to remove Google’s Java code ( a requirement for participation in Google Analytics program ) from all of our content and server systems.
Robert W. Butche
Publisher