The pressure to anticipate an audience’s needs and desires is intense—no longer only of concern to business sides of media organizations but a part of the editorial mission. As former CJR Editor and P
Culture defines any business, but it’s one of the hardest things to manage. In this extract from her new TED Book, Margaret Heffernan lays out the often-overlooked element necessary to build an effect
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The future of journalism is an open question. As journalism professors, it can sometimes be hard to know what to teach. We know our journalism students need to be flexible, ready to adapt to changing
Systems Thinking What El Tímpano learned covering health and housing through a systems lens | July 20, 2022 In July 2018, my colleagues and I at Journalism + Design led one of our first systems thinki
Contents Overview Simply put, Emancipay makes it easy for anybody to pay (or offer to pay) — as much as they like however they like for whatever they like on their own terms — or at least to start wit
Rex Hammock is right to gripe about the newspaper turtles pulling their heads in their shells and complaining that readers aren’t paying for the goods papers offer for free online. In that post he run
I’m late weighing in on the New York Times’ reported decision to drop Times Select. But not on calling it a bad idea in the first place . Nor on offering alternative ways of looking at both problems a
One of the geeks here at the Berkman Center walked into a room recently and started poking his index finger down on a newspaper that was laying on the table, as if expecting it to do something electro
Growing Audience Is Turning to Established News Media Online See the article in its original context from August 27, 2001, Section C, Page 1 Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclus
The Meta Journalism Project Accelerator Program A global training program helping local news publishers build a sustainable future World-class training, global community The Meta Journalism Project Ac
As the news around the coronavirus became overwhelming for readers and journalists alike, the Columbia Missourian — like many other newsrooms — rolled out a coronavirus newsletter in mid-March. The ne
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A blog entry titled 9 Ways for Newspapers to Improve Their Websites has been making the rounds lately. I don’t write about the online news industry on this site as much as I used to , but this article
Disclaimer: This case study was created in cooperation with Erika Allen, as of April 2022, Erika Allen is no longer with VICE Digital. Erika Allen, Executive Managing Editor at VICE Digital, tells us
History of Innovation Design Thinking Prototyping an Idea This course will explore innovation associated with digital entrepreneurship and creativity within organizations. Students will integrate conc
by Cindy Royal Summary Digital technologies provide new ways for media companies to distribute information, engage the public, and assess results and outcomes. These products should also reflect an or
Product-management positions are a world away from technical roles. With the latter, you focus on how software works; with the former, you examine how to bring in customers, and how they move through
Introducing the Audience Explorer analytics dashboard for small and medium-size news publishers The dashboard is based around 10 custom reports you can use to drive engaged readership Published in Cen
Filed under: Development Building an in-browser image editor with React How we enable Concert Ad Manager users to upload, crop, zoom, and optimize their images — completely in-browser without any exte
Features : Demystifying the editorial process helps us create the best experience for the communities we serve collaboration product editorial Posted on: February 4, 2020 As news organizations further
Open in appAudience research at The Atlantic: How we use it — and what we don’t expect it to do for usAudience research at The Atlantic: How we use it — and what we don’t expect it to do for us@emgollie writes about spending the equivalent of months per year learning about the news needs of readers,…
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3 Min Read Business decision makers place trusted and intelligent content as top factor when turning to online news brands, with half expecting their news consumption to grow, according to a survey pu
In 1994, a member of the newsroom named Rich Meislin wrote an internal memo about the value of “computer-based services” that The Times could offer its readers. One of the proposed services was Recipe
Published in Disruptive Design · 7 min read · Sep 7, 2017 -- In this series on systems thinking, I share the key insights and tools needed to develop and advance a systems mindset for dealing with com
21 min read · May 21, 2020 -- Out of the horrors of Covid-19, as organisations are taking stock and re-evaluating their business models, there is an opportunity to redefine organisational purpose and
The rise of digital disrupted the news business in countless ways, but one of the most profound was the loss of the publisher’s role as curator. A newspaper didn’t just produce the news, after all — i
Last month, I decided to try an experiment with my media diet. Usually, in the morning, I skim e-mail newsletters in my in-box, scroll through my Twitter feed, and peruse the news apps on my phone; la
Historically, a file is a technology of gathering. Its name in English comes from ways to gather papers introduced throughout Europe at the turn of the 15 th century. Papers that were strung on wire o
Updated at 3:49 p.m. ET on August 25, 2020. Many will be tempted to see the tragic coronavirus pandemic through a solely partisan lens: The Trump administration spectacularly failed in its response, b
Unforeseen outcomes of an action This article is about the sociological concept. For the novel, see Unintended Consequences (novel) . "Law of unintended consequences" redirects here. For the Wikipedia
Editor’s note: This week, the GNI Subscriptions Lab will lead sessions at the Mega-Conference in Fort Worth, TX to share best practices and opportunities to grow digital subscriptions in line with rea
Flower shops are a risky business proposition. Many get a big portion of their revenue on two single occasions: Mother’s Day and Valentine’s Day. The product they sell is not perceived as essential. T
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