Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Fiona Morgan Journalism is necessary for civic life not because it’s the only kind of information that matters, but because it’s a vital part of the networks that connect us Fiona Morgan 7 min read· Aug 4, 2022 -- There have been some great…

It’s a bit embarrassing to finish a book by Malcolm Gladwell—master of the let me take you by the hand prose style, dealer in the simple and unmistakable thesis—and realize you don’t quite know what he’s driving at. Gladwell’s method is well established and, you would think, fail-safe. It’s one of…

Competition is the merciless propelling force of this new era of journalism — and in the year ahead that will only intensify. It’s a beautiful thing, though of course not everyone will win. To spot future winners and losers, watch the following issues: The “Chinese wall” cannot be the only concept…

Alyssa Choiniere CherryRoad has rapidly expanded because our CEO Jeremy Gulban is committed to community journalism and community newspapers. He really is interested in finding where CherryRoad can be

An alarm went off on some desk at The New York Times business section: Oh-oh, time to slam blogs again. But the latest assault reveals as much about The Times and the culture of classical journalism as it does about bloggers. Like the millennial clash of business models in media – the content…

I shuttered my own news startup. Here’s what journalism should learn from my experience.What sustainability looked like for me, and when it changed:Closing Raleigh ConvergenceOperational lessons for the industryInsight: Events are journalismInsight: Let community members into your journalismInsight:…

As our industry matures and its rituals calcify, is it becoming increasingly unwelcoming to different ways of thinking? Josh Singer 18 min read· Jun 28, 2022 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Alyani Yang on Unsplash Between a restrictive view of what constitutes good design…

Written by: Lizzy Hardison Overhauling your website is one of the most significant projects you can undertake as a news organization. Whether you’re pursuing a cosmetic redesign or changing your name and identity, few initiatives will have a bigger impact on the way your readers experience your work…

Poynter thanks the Knight Foundation for its support of this program, which concluded in 2023. The 2023 program was the sixth year of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation-funded and Poynter-facilitated initiative to accelerate digital transformation and sustainability in local news. More than…

GREEN BAY – The Green Bay Packers business model might help save a newspaper, which would be appropriate since a newspaper helped save the Packers. Leaders of The Sentinel, a weekly publication in Aurora, Colorado with twice-daily email newsletters, have been investigating whether the Packers'…

Including UX as an integral part of a project is a mainstream practice today, but that was not always so. Paul McInerney 6 min read· May 26, 2022 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Josie Weiss on Unsplash By the end of the 1990s, the conceptual foundations of UX were well…

"It's the content, stupid." This catchy apothegm, now the mantra of an infant new media industry, is chanted by entrepreneurs, uttered sagely over Chardonnay in Malibu, and dis-cussed intently by strategists in the boardrooms of media mega-conglomerates. As compelling as this phrase may be, it is…

One of the almost universal truths in publishing is that most publishers have a difficult time getting young people to use them. This, of course, is not a new problem, and neither is this the first time I have written about it. But let's take an updated look at this problem. Let's look at some of…

plus A deeper look at the macro trends from the Digital News Report 2026 What are the macro trends about how people feel about the news executive How publishers can build responsible and auditable AI assisted analysis It's not enough to just tell your newsroom to use AI correctly. plus What did…

In July 2018, my colleagues and I at Journalism + Design led one of our first systems thinking workshops with a group of journalists from media organizations across the Bay Area, convened by our partners at Renaissance Journalism. Madeleine Bair, founding director of El Tímpano, was among the…

Perusing the first round of grantees from the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium (NJCIC), you’ll notice a trend: nearly half of the projects are rooted in equipping more people across New Jersey with journalism skills to support more informed communities. From Bloomfield Info Project’s…

One of the most meaningful changes in our economy in the past decade has been the astronomical growth in online advertising — and the corresponding destruction of newspaper advertising. In the past decade, online advertising soared to $189 billion from $31 billion. During roughly the same time…

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Back in May 2007, Brian Boyer was just another computer guy short-circuiting from ennui sitting on a friend’s couch, reading blogs. Then he noticed a post on BoingBoing about Northwestern University’s Medill School, which had just announced big scholarships…

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Lessons from media history helped me understand why media companies weren’t more innovative in the 1990s and 2000s Kaidi "Ruby" Yuan 5 min read· Jul 20, 2022 -- In July 2021, during my first quarter as a Medill School master’s student in Media Innovation & Content Strategy, a seminar lecture sent me…

Published in TDAN.com January 2003 Articles in this series – Part 1 , Part 2 Business Rule Analysts find a business rule classification scheme to be a useful tool in developing a set of business rules

The News & Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina, partnered with white supremacists to intimidate black voters in the 1890s yet remains a respected newspaper today, writer Alexandria Neason noted in a story last year. “Americans have short memories; we don’t like to be reminded of our many sins, so…

Taneth Autumn Evans 5 min read· May 17, 2019 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Press photographers, 1926 ©Times Newspapers Ltd At the advent of digital photography Kodak were reluctant to invest in the new medium despite the world’s first digital camera being created by Steven…

(Shutterstock) By: Tara McGowan July 15, 2022 Much has already been said, tweeted and complained about The Washington Post’s tagline, “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” that was unveiled at the start of the Trump administration. It’s harsh, foreboding and alarming. But it’s also true. When people don’t…

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On a night in 1978, Ted Henter was driving a rental car down a dark road in the English countryside. A 27-year-old motorcycle racer from Florida, Henter had just won eighth place in the Venezuelan Grand Prix, the first race of the 1978 World Championships. He was daydreaming about his next race in…

NEW YORK (AP) — The presidential election, pandemic and racial reckoning were stories that drove intense interest and engagement to news outlets in 2020. To a large degree, 2021 represented the inevitable hangover. Various metrics illustrate the dwindling popularity of news content. Cable news…

Today, many newsrooms face constraints on their time and money. So, what if there were a way to do more, with less? A closer look at what readers read and why they read it reveals that publications often produce too much of the wrong type of content. Yet, it’s not just cash-strapped newsrooms that…

Few tech CEOs can claim to have steered the course of online conversation more than Ev Williams. In 1999 he co-founded Blogger, which helped to take blogging mainstream with a well designed, free tool that sold to Google four years later. In 2006 Williams and his co-founder followed with Twitter,…

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But could that complexity be artificially induced? Was there a way to cultivate better conversations? To find out, the researchers started giving the participants something to read before they met — a short article on another polarizing issue. One version of the article laid out both sides of a…

Deborah Lee/NPR More than ever, news organizations want to build immersive storytelling experiences for audiences, where users can interact with visuals, audio and data — sometimes all at once. But the pace of technological change and our desire to tell stories in new and innovative ways often…