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Most of us know at least some basic keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl + C for copy, Ctrl + V for paste, and the infamous Ctrl + Alt + Delete for when things arent going so well.

Thats not all. You can use your keyboard to paste text without its original messy formatting, take a picture of your screen, and create a virtual desktop to keep work and life separate. Tap or click here for seven shortcuts that will help you save even more time.

Speaking of time, heres a 30-second privacy check you need to do if you use Google or Facebook regularly. Do it now while youre thinking of it.

There are more ways to cut to the chase beyond a few keystrokes. If you use Googles Docs, Sheets, and Calendar, heres a smart, quick way to create new files and events without clicking through menus:

Microsoft Office is expensive. If you dont want to pay for Word, Excel, and all the rest, a free alternative is the way to go. Google isnt the only option out there. Tap or click here for seven free choices that do what Word does.

But if you do use Google Docs, heres a trick you need to know. The same goes for opening a new Google Sheet, Googles version of Excel.

A similar shortcut opens your Google Calendar with a new blank calendar entry for you to fill in, which is faster than going through your calendar itself or Google Drive.

First, make sure you're signed in to your Google account. Now open your browser. Enter in the type of file you want to create, along with ".new" in the browser's URL bar.

For example, you can open a Google Doc by typing in document.new or a calendar entry by typing cal.new.

Heres a handy list for reference. You can use any of the following shortcuts for each application:

Google Docs: document.new, docs.new, doc.new

Google Sheets: spreadsheet.new, sheets.new, sheet.new

Google Slides: presentation.new, slides.new, slide.new

Google Forms: forms.new, form.new

Google Keep: keep.new, notes.new, note.new

Google Calendar: meeting.new, cal.new

Google Meeting: meet.new

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OTTAWA - Google has taken the extraordinary step of writing to every MP and senator expressing fears that the online news bill is being rushed through Parliament without proper debate or consideration.

In its letter, Google warns that the bill needs more scrutiny because of its implications, including for the way the search engine ranks content and elevates information from trusted sources such as the government.

Bill C-18, as it is known in Parliament, is designed to support the Canadian news industry and would make online platforms such as Google and Meta compensate media organizations for reusing their journalism.

In its letter, Google says it agrees with the bill's aim to support Canadian journalism, including financially, but says there are multiple flaws in the proposed legislation that could have far-reaching consequences.

It lists a series of misconceptions about how the bill will work in practice, warning parliamentarians that, as worded, it could force Google to subsidize foreign state-owned news outlets.

It said the bill has a very broad definition of eligible news businesses and could mean that foreign state-owned outlets could be eligible even if they are known sources of misinformation and propaganda.

The letter also warns that, as currently worded, the bill's undue preference provision may prohibit features that elevate information from trusted sources (including government information) or reduce low quality information (including from eligible foreign state media outlets).

The breadth of this provision threatens potential liability for any type of ranking or moderation of news content or any action that might have a negative impact on any outlet, even if that outlet is known to produce propaganda or disinformation, the letter adds.

But Laura Scaffidi, a spokeswoman for Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, said the Online News Act is critically important legislation to ensure that tech giants fairly pay Canadian publishers and journalists for their work.

The government has fast-tracked the bill through the Commons, reducing the amount of time it is debated on the floor of the House before going into committee for closer scrutiny.

Scaffidi said the bill has been referred to committee for further study and discussion from MPs, experts and other witnesses and will return to the House of Commons and Senate for further debate.

But Conservative House leader John Brassard accused the government of limiting and stifling debate of the bill by MPs.

I'm profoundly disappointed they moved a time allocation on such a highly contentious bill that needs significant work, he said. What they are doing is simply bypassing the House of Commons. We only had two hours of debate on C-18 and, as the official Opposition, we only had one speaker.

Google spokeswoman Lauren Skelly said: Getting this right is much more important than getting it done quickly.

She said Google wrote to MPs and senators because it was important for them to know where we stand and said the bill as currently written was deeply flawed.

She added, in a statement, that Google was strongly in favour of contributing financially to support a sustainable future for journalism and the news ecosystem in Canada.

Paul Deegan of News Media Canada, which represents the country's news media industry, said this is important legislation that should be studied by the heritage committee without delay.

It will benefit publishers large and small - as similar legislation has in Australia.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 1, 2022.

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WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - Republican senators want to bar U.S. app stores including Apple and Google from hosting apps that allow payments to be made with China's digital currency, amid fears the payment system could allow Beijing to spy on Americans.

The bill, unveiled Thursday and first reported by Reuters, states that companies that own or control app stores "shall not carry or support any app in [their] app store(s) within the United States that supports or enables transactions in e-CNY." It is sponsored by Senators Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio and Mike Braun.

According to Cotton's office, digital yuan could provide the Chinese government with "real-time visibility into all transactions on the network, posing privacy and security concerns for American persons who join this network."

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The Center for a New American Security, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, said in a January 2021 report that China's digital currency and electronic payments system was "likely to be a boon for CCP surveillance in the economy and for government interference in the lives of Chinese citizens," noting that "transactions will contain precise data about users and their financial activity."

The move comes after WeChat, a messaging and payment application owned by China's Tencent with over 1.2 billion users, announced it would begin supporting the currency earlier this year. Alipay, the hugely popular payments app owned by Jack Ma's Ant Group, also accepts the digital currency. Both apps are available in the Apple and Google App stores.

Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google, Ant Group (688688.SS) and Tencent (0700.HK) did not respond to requests for comment.

The Chinese Embassy in Washington called the legislation "another example of the United States wantonly bullying foreign companies by abusing state power on the untenable ground of national security."

While stopping potential national security threats related to China is a rare point of bipartisan agreement in the deeply divided U.S. Congress, prospects for the bill's passage ahead of midterm elections are uncertain.

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As seen by camera-based heart and respiratory rate tracking in Fit for Android, one aspect of Googles Health initiative is leveraging existing devices to collect health data. Google is now in the process of testing on-device snore and cough detection for Android and/or Pixel.

About APK Insight: In this APK Insight post, weve decompiled the latest version of an application that Google uploaded to the Play Store. When we decompile these files (called APKs, in the case of Android apps), were able to see various lines of code within that hint at possible future features. Keep in mind that Google may or may not ever ship these features, and our interpretation of what they are may be imperfect. Well try to enable those that are closer to being finished, however, to show you how theyll look in case that they do ship. With that in mind, read on.

Google Health Studies hit version 2.0 this week to support the launch of a new digital wellbeing study. Strings in that update reveal a Sleep Audio Collection study thats only available to Google employees.

You must be a Full Time Googler with an Android phone to participate in this study. Environmental conditions required for this study are to have no more than one adult sleeper in the same room who does not work for a competitor company.

Google explains that its Health Sensing team is actively working to bring an advanced suite of sensing capabilities and algorithms to Android devices with the goal of providing users with meaningful insight into their sleep. This audio collection supports this mission by providing data necessary to validate, tune, and develop such algorithms.

These Cough and Snore algorithms will translate into a bedside monitoring feature on Android devices that works in a privacy-preserving, on-device manner for nocturnal cough and snore monitoring.

Its unclear whether snore and cough detection will be a broader Android feature or a Pixel exclusive. At the very least, it might debut first on the Pixel. Its unclear what app this capability will live in, with Google Fit and Clock being obvious candidates.

Back in 2020, Google introduced a Bedtime hub in Google Clock that works with Digital Wellbeing to estimate time spent in bed. This involves granting the Clock app access to motion and light detection. Meanwhile, Fitbit offers Snore & Noise Detect on the Sense and Versa 3, while the second-generation Nest Hub has a similar capability.

Another theory to consider is that this capability is for the upcoming Nest Tablet in its presumed Smart Display/docked (via pogo pins) configuration. That said, Google would reach more users by making this available on all Android phones.

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Releaf Paper, a Ukrainian company that extracts cellulose fibres from fallen leaves to make paper packaging, has been awarded $100,000 in funding and mentorship from Google as part of theGoogle for Startups Ukraine Support Fund.

In March, Google announced a $5 million Google for Startups Ukraine Support Fund with plans to award equity-free, non-dilutive funding to around 50 Ukraine-based start-ups on a rolling basis throughout 2022. The start-ups are also invited to use the Google for Startups Campus Warsaw as a temporary office space, and will receive mentorship, product support, and Cloud credits from Google.

Eligible start-ups must have been founded and based in Ukraine before February 24th, 2022. Start-ups must also have surpassed the minimum variable product (MVP) stage with proven traction, such as products being on the market and generating early revenue. Google says that companies with a social impact mission will be prioritised.

Google intends for founders to use the non-dilutive cash award to continue growth or resume business operations that have been impacted by the war in Ukraine following Russias invasion in February 2022. The company also expects recipients to pivot products to address new challenges.

Support for Ukrainian-led startups will help them succeed and build the tech that their country needs now. And as the region starts to recover, startups and tech companies will be key to rebuilding the Ukrainian economy, creating jobs, and positively impact the cities they make their homes, Google explained when announcing the Fund.

Google has today announced the initial recipients of the Google for Startups Ukraine Support Fund, with Releaf Paper being one of the first companies to be awarded the $100,000 in funding and other support measures.

Founded by Valentyn Frechka and Alexander Sobolenko, Releaf started as a secondary school project to extract high-quality cellulose from fallen leaves for Frechka, who was a member of the Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine at the time.

The Releaf concept has since evolved into a four-step process. Firstly, the fallen leaves are collected from urban environments where they would otherwise be considered waste; the leaves are then cleaned and processed in a chemical reactor to extract the fibres. Next, the fibres are washed and ground in a process that does not use sulphur or chlorine chemical components. Finally, the fibrous pulp is mixed with bio-based fillers to produce rolls of paper.

Releafs paper production process reportedly offers 33.22% lower CO2 emissions compared to the production of paper from wastepaper, as well as a 79.32% reduction compared to the production of paper from wood pulp.

Sobolenko, one of the co-founders of Releaf says: Customers in retail stores would like to see less plastic packaging but more natural and biosafe [products]. We promote an idea that paper must be woodless and people keeping our product are proud to feel contribution in forest conservation.

However, Sobolenko told Packaging Europe that it was too late to evacuate Releafs warehouses when Russia invaded Ukraine in February. With the focus being on protecting and supporting its employees, one of Releafs paper mills suspended its activities; the Releaf team also lost communication with another vendor based in Kharkiv. The company were unable to finalise projects with major cosmetic brands, NYX and Kiehls, in the aftermath of the invasion, but set out to sell some of its paper stock and donate the money to Ukrainian refugees.

Sobolenko highlights the importance of supporting Ukrainian businesses. The best thing the packaging industry can do to support its Ukrainian colleagues is to continue buying Made in Ukraine products, he explained in the same interview. Not a single entrepreneur is caring now about profits, but everyone is trying their best to save the countrys economy and provide other people with means for living.

So, by buying Ukrainian paper, packaging, or services, other companies contribute immensely to the survival of the Ukrainian economy and human lives.

The Google for Startups Ukraine Support Fund appears to share a similar goal. Overall, Google says that the funding and mentorship are intended to help Ukrainian entrepreneurs maintain and grow their businesses, strengthen their community, and build a foundation for post-war economic recovery.

In a LinkedIn post sharing the news, Frechka comments on the Google funding: Circumstances in Ukraine have put our project in a state of uncertainty for some time, but in order to be able to see the future, we continued to work. Therefore, we are pleased to share the first news about the first fruits of long work.

Our innovative project Re-Leaf Paper Technology was recognized by Google as one of the best startups in Ukraine and will receive funding from the Google for Startups Foundation.

It is gratifying and strange to receive such recognition as the only manufacturing company in the cohort of IT businesses. We are sure that Google cannot be wrong!

Eligible companies can continue to apply for the Google for Startups Ukraine Support Fund here.

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New partnerships with Oracle, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are highlighting Informaticas strategy to dominate the market for data management products by offering integrations that cut down the time and complexity of data migration, management and engineering tasks.

The partnerships, announced this week at the annual Informatica World conference, boost the capabilities of the companys Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) and are in sync with the companys recent data management product releases and previous partnerships with cloud software and service providers including AWS, Databricks and Snowflake.

At the conference, Informatica launched two new industry-focused IDMCs for financial services and healthcare firms, as well as new data engineering and MLOps tools.

Informatica has been slowly executing its plan to go beyond the ETL (extract, transform and load) tools it has been known for. Crucial to this strategy are moves to deepen its partnerships with major cloud service providers so that all Informatica customers, regardless of their cloud vendor, can take advantage of the range of its offerings for migrating, planning, analyzing, engineering and governing data.

The key focus seems to be to eliminate the need for multiple vendors or platforms for data management and analytics, at a time when siloed data and the complexity of managing modern applications are plaguing enterprises.

Among this weeks announcements, the company said that it was extending its relationship with Microsoft to include a private preview of a SaaS (software as a service) version of Informaticas Master Data Management (MDM) product on Azure, which will be available via the Azure Marketplace.

The SaaS service is part of Informaticas data management cloud, and the partnership is meant to enable joint customers to rapidly combine and rationalize hundreds of data sources for all their critical business operations, resulting in a repository of trusted data that can used to generate business insights, according to the company.

In addition, the company has added new governance capabilities to IDMC on Azure, to allow users to apply management and security rules to the flow of data from disparate sources to Microsofts Power BI analytics software.

This will enable Informatica to provide a complete view of data governance from data source to data consumption, the company said.

The new capabilities follow a partnership with Microsoft for a cloud analytics program launched in November 2021 that, according to the companies, enables almost 90% automated data migration to Azure.

Extending its partnership with Google Cloud, Informatica this week said that it was launching a new free cloud service, named Informatica Data Loader for Google BigQuery, in the form of a SaaS offering.

The SaaS service, which the company claims is a zero-code, zero-devops and zero-infrastructure offering, is designed to allow enterprise users to generate insights faster because of its ability to ingest data from multiple source connecters to the Google data warehouse.

The Data Loader can be accessed directly from the Google BigQuery console, providing access to all Google Cloud customers, Informatica and Google said in a joint statement.

In October 2021, Informatica partnered with Google to offer a joint data migration program.

Informatica has also added Oracle to its list of partners. The partnership between the two companies entails support for Informaticas IDMC platform on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Exadata Database Service, Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer, and Oracle Object Storage.

IDMC, which will be made available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace, is expected to help facilitate data platform modernization by easing the move of on-premises workloads to OCI, Informatica said, adding that the partnership will enable enterprises to gain insights at scale while leveraging their existing investments.

The announcements this week follow similar moves last year. In September last year, Informatica announced an on-prem to cloud migration program with Snowflake, followed by a similar partnership with AWS in December. It also has a partnership with Databricks.

In addition to the data migration programs, a key part of Informaticas data management strategy for enterprises are features that allow disparate teams and departments within companies to share data sets. Last November, it released Cloud Data Marketplace, designed to allow employees within an organization to share ready-to-use data sets for use with AI and analytics models.

This week at its conference, Informatica said that its annual recurring revenue for cloud offerings has grown 43% year-over-year as of March 31, with IDMCs artificial intelligence engine, dubbed CLAIRE, processing over 32 trillion transactions on the cloud each month for the same period.

The company, which counts Pepsi, Volvo, ADT, Telus, FreddieMac, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City and Hershey as its customers, expects CLAIRE to double the amount of transactions it processes over the next year.

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Martin Sorrell, founder and chairman of media firm S4 Capital, believes the war in Ukraine has the potential to benefit three of America's biggest tech firms.

"I'm very bullish on the tech giants ... because the war will have an impact on them," Sorrell told CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos Monday.

He added: "The big three Google (or Alphabet), Meta, and Amazon will benefit, I think, as a result of the war."

Explaining his reasoning, Sorrell said: "Defense means cyber defense and cyber offense so technology and technological companies become really important."

Sorrell stopped short of saying exactly how Alphabet, Meta and Amazon could benefit from this, but all three companies boast that their cyber security systems are world leading.

Google and Amazon also provide cloud computing infrastructure that governments and cyber companies can harness in cyber warfare.

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Google, Amazon and Meta did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment.

The war in Ukraine is being fought both online and offline, with hackers on each side targeting the enemy's national infrastructure, businesses, governments and citizens.

Over the last few weeks, major tech stocks have plummeted amid concerns of persistently high inflation, rising interest rates and the risk of a global recession. The Nasdaqstock market declined 3.8% last week, falling for a seventh straight week. It's the longest losing streak for the tech-heavy index in 21 years.

Asked if the world is facing a second dot com bubble, Sorrell said there's already been a "massive correction," adding that some people think there could be a further correction of 5-10%.

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Good news for Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 owners: the wait is over. Google Assistant is finally available for download starting today.

Google Assistant for Wear OS 3 is available for download in the Google Play Store and can be launched from the Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classics app menu. However, you can also use voice commands to open Google Assistant or reprogram the watches home button as a shortcut.

This update has been a long time coming. When Google and Samsung first announced Wear OS 3, the companies promised that the unified platform would give Samsung smartwatch users more choice in apps. Previously, Samsungs Tizen-based smartwatches could only offer Bixby as a digital assistant. The idea was that Wear OS 3 would let consumers choose between Bixby and Google Assistant. The same would be true for apps like Google Pay.

Google Assistant has been notably absent from the Galaxy Watch 4 since its launch last year. Despite user frustrations, Google and Samsung continued to be vague about when Assistant would arrive, saying little more than coming soon.

However, it was clear the wait was coming to an end in the lead-up to this years Google I/O. First, Verizon accidentally implied Assistant was already available in an update log at the end of April. (It was not.) Then, a few days later, Samsung uploaded a teaser video to YouTube showing Assistant on the Galaxy Watch 4. Then, right after the Google I/O keynote earlier this month, Samsung confirmed that Assistant was arriving this summer.

The only surprising thing about todays announcement is how soon its arrived after I/O. (After all, its been less than two weeks since I/O, and its not even officially summer yet.) Then again, it makes a lot of sense that its shipping sooner rather than later. At I/O, Google emphasized it would include more Google services on the forthcoming Pixel Watch when it launches this fall and its hard to imagine a Pixel Watch without Assistant.

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Only the best deals on Verge-approved gadgets get the Verge Deals stamp of approval, so if you're looking for a deal on your next gadget or gift from major retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Target, and more, this is the place to be.

There are many ways to get your weekend started right and, unsurprisingly, one of our favorites here at Verge Deals is with some quality tech deals. Teeing off first is the Google Nest Wifi mesh router system. Wellbots has a few different configurations of the Nest Wifi available with special discounts, including the standalone router for just $119 ($50 off when you use code 50VERGE at checkout), the router and one additional Point to extend the mesh network for $189 ($80 off with code 80VERGE), and the router plus two Points for $249 ($100 off with code 100VERGE).

The important thing here is to pick the right setup for your home depending on how much space you need to cover. The Nest Wifi router by itself is rated to cover up to 2,200 square feet, and adding just one Point to the mix extends that to 3,800. A home with a tricky layout or thicker walls may benefit from a Point or two to extend the mesh network, even if its not massive space. Theres a further benefit to adding a Point to the equation each one acts as a smart speaker for playing music, podcasts, and accessing the Google Assistant. So when it comes down to picking which of these Wi-Fi 5-capable setups is just right for you, consider the factors of coverage, convenience, and cost that are right for you. Read our review.

Googles Nest Wifi router and Point extender have an unassuming design. The router has two ethernet ports, while the Point can be used like a smart speaker. Use codes 50VERGE and 80VERGE for discounts at checkout from Wellbots.

Theres a great deal happening on 1Passwords subscription of services. New customers can sign up for one year of 1Passwords password manager service and get 50 percent off an individual plan or 50 percent off a family plan. Both are billed annually, with the family plan offering especially good value if you require more than one account.

The individual plan deal gets you one personal account with access across unlimited devices that costs just $17.94 for the first year of service, as opposed to the regular $36. As for the family plan, you get five accounts for $30 for the first year instead of the usual $60. Weve seen these 1Password deals drop as low as 60 percent off before, so while this one is not the very best it comes pretty close. If youre in need of protecting your personal data with an easy way to generate secure passwords (and we all are), its a good way to go.

1Passwords family subscription grants up to five people individual access to 1Passwords services. Typically $5 a month, this limited-time deal brings the price down to $2 a month for up to a year.

If youve got an Xbox Series X or Series S and you like to keep lots of games installed at once, their built-in storage can start to feel a lot more limiting than it sounds on paper at first. Many AAA-titles are 60GB or more each, with some like Call of Duty Warzone taking up nearly 100GB on its own. Yes, you can plug in a USB hard drive and offload some games into cold storage, but they have to moved back to the internal SSD when its time to play.

So, if you really want more storage, the 2TB Xbox Expansion Card from Seagate, which usually runs $399.99, is currently discounted to $380.90 at Amazon. I know that is still a pretty penny for 2,000GB (or roughly 21 more copies of Call of Duty Warzone), but these little expansion cards rarely go on sale. Theyre also just as fast as the internal storage of the Xbox Series X and S, and they plug into the rear of the console so theres no ugly USB cable and disc drive sitting alongside your Xbox.

Planning a fun getaway or excursion for the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend holiday? If you want something to help you record some memories while doing fun, outdoorsy activities, the GoPro Hero 10 Black with an additional battery and a dual battery charger is down to $399.99 at Amazon.

This is the latest action camera from GoPro, and while it looks a lot like the previous Hero 9, its much faster, thanks to its GP2 processor. The Hero 10 Black captures up to 5.3K 60fps footage and even 120fps slow-mo at 4K resolution. It also maintains that front-facing screen from its predecessor, so framing up your shot when mounting the camera on something like a bike is much easier. One of the few drawbacks to the Hero 10 is its mediocre battery life, but thats one of the reasons this deal is so great for about $400 you get an extra battery included, as well as a dual charger to easily keep both packs topped-up and ready. Read our review.

The GoPro Hero 10 Black offers a new processor making it possible to shoot in 4K resolution at 120 frames per second.

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Some of the finest American journalism is still being done by newspapers, said Adam Symson, president and CEO of The E.W. Scripps Company, one of the largest broadcast news companies in the United States.

And yet, unfortunately, as a result of the economic pressures that the newspaper industry is under, local newspapers in particular are losing their relevance and their reach, Symson said. And as a result of all of the downsizing, our industry is losing a lot of these fine journalists to other careers.

Symson, who became Scripps CEO in August 2017, said he wants to attract and retain the very best journalists. Thats why this week the broadcasting company announced the Scripps Journalism Journey Initiative, a multi-year initiative with Google that would help transition experienced journalists with primarily print news backgrounds into broadcast news careers. Selected journalists will be hired into full-time career positions in Scripps local and national media newsrooms. According to a press release, these positions may include beat/specialty reporter, specialty executive producer, photojournalist, editor/manager, documentary producer and copy editor.

In a written statement, David Brooks, Googles director of global news partnerships, called the initiative a great opportunity to support mid-career journalists looking for new challenges or a new direction to reignite the passion that drove them into journalism in the first place.

Symson said The E.W. Scripps Company has hired many print journalists over the last several years, but a lack of infrastructure to help with the training and development of these journalists has been a barrier to bringing in more. The program promises extensive training and support, including mentoring, job shadowing, hands-on work and individual coaching.

We intend to help the transition around writing skills, around understanding the difference between print writing and broadcast writing, around presentation, as the case may be if the person is going to make the transition to do on-air work. And if theyre not going to do on-air work, understanding the elements of producing pieces for television from a videography perspective, Symson said. We already think a lot of print photojournalists come to our newsrooms with the necessary video skills to be outstanding video journalists. Theres some nuance with the equipment that we use. Theres some understanding of how to work in our medium from a producing-of-the-story perspective, but (theyre) immediately transferable skills.

Asked about whether the company is interested in journalists who have been laid off or who want to transition out of print, Symson said any and all, including reporters, editors, photojournalists, data reporters, specialty reporters, executive editors and managers.

Symson said the creation of this new program has everything to do with the decline of print newspapers. He called the decline problematic because the industry loses journalists with every buyout or job action at a newspaper. He added that he wants to maintain a healthy journalism ecosystem and noted that what has kept some journalists with print backgrounds from joining broadcast newsrooms is the question of developing the skills necessary for the job.

Theyve already got the journalism part down, but they have to have the platform delivery down, he said. And so putting in place the infrastructure to be able to recruit, train and retain mid-career journalists and launch them into careers in Scripps newsrooms is the opportunity.

Applications for the Scripps Journalism Journey Initiative are expected to be available in early summer. Symson said he did not have a salary range for the positions, but emphasized that these are not entry-level roles. He said the range would depend on the market, and a role in management is also different.

To carry out the program, the company is currently hiring a team.

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