I love studies of local news that focus directly on news consumers. A new report from Delaware’s Local Journalism Initiative does just that. It includes extensive excerpts from interviews with a diverse group of more than 250 Delawareans about what they want and need from local news, and what they…

The American Press Institute (API) today announced that five news organizations and four coaches have been selected for the digital subscriptions growth and retention sprint program for alumni of the Table Stakes Local News Transformation Program, which advances innovations in local journalism…

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Press enter or click to view image in full size Read Marina Walker Guevara’s keynote from the 2022 Collaborative Journalism Summit Stefanie Murray 9 min read· May 23, 2022 -- By Marina Walker Guevara Editor’s note: The following keynote address was given by Marina Walker Guevara at the 2022…

Research and AdvisoryThe Fix Foundation Cracking the media management puzzle through insights, solutions and data Become a member Member-only storiesBusiness ModelsAudience EngagementPodcastIndustry NewsMedia FinancingOrganisation building June 02, 2022, 06:59•8 min read •June 02, 2022, 06:59•8 min…

Design Thinking Lean Startup Innovation Agile Christina Wodtke 10 min read· Aug 26, 2017 -- My new book on visual thinking is out! http://amzn.to/2yb69CZFor reprint rights, or to hire me speak, contact me. When I first heard about Design Thinking, I thought it was a clever rebranding effort by IDEO…

"I see product as pushing transformation to the next level - and the media industry desperately needs something to push it forward," says Carrique. "We are past digital transformation, that was 20 years ago. But what's next for us, how do we put in place and implement systems that allow us to…

proto-ipad Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on On its 30th anniversary, we look at the groundbreaking product’s enduring legacy. Jeremy Reimer – Jun 1, 2022 6:45 am | 197 Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers only Learn more Thirty years ago, on May 29, 1992, Apple announced its most…

Leading With Impact In this series, author and organizational coach Chris Clearfield talks with leaders who manage technology-driven teams at innovative organizations across the world. The series will examine universal big-picture challenges as well as specific lessons on sparking ideas and…

Leaders must answer eight key questions to address the hidden tensions underlying innovation strategies. Why do most corporate innovation efforts fail to pay off, with 3 out of 4 new product releases failing to gain traction in the marketplace? Christopher Bingham and Rory McDonald argue that…

How should a weekly business magazine determine the long-term value of its subscribers: by how many stories they read or the number of times they visit the website? Contrary to the usual preoccupation with page views, it turns out that frequent readers are more valuable than those who only stop by…

A new UNESCO policy brief led by ICFJ calls for urgent action to address the news media viability crisis. The authors, including ICFJ’s Deputy Vice President of Global Research Dr. Julie Posetti and Columbia University’s Dr. Anya Schiffrin, review how news organizations, online platforms,…

When The (Bergen) Record in northern New Jersey began tracking Covid-19 deaths and writing profiles about the deceased in March 2020, the task seemed manageable. Jim O’Neill, a longtime editor at The Record, handled the project. He combed through obituaries throughout the state, took note of deaths…

Twenty-nine news organizations from North America recently wrapped up the Meta Journalism Project’s Accelerator program, focused on reader revenue. Local Media Association staff joined and participated in the virtual workshops. The news organizations — half of which are owned or led by Black,…

Editor’s note: Longtime Nieman Lab readers know the bylines of Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis. Mark wrote the weekly This Week in Review column for us from 2010 to 2014; Seth’s written for us off and on since 2010. Together they’ve launched a monthly newsletter on recent academic research around…

By Senior Consultant Mather Economics Atlanta, Georgia, United States President Mather Economics Atlanta, Georgia, USA Connect Senior Director Mather Economics Atlanta, Georgia, USA We made a strong case for using lifetime value (LTV) as your North Star in a recent blog post. Here, we present…

Provided to BuzzFeed News A delivery app marketing campaign offering a "free lunch" — aka a $15 promo code valid for three hours — sent customers and restaurant workers alike into a spiral on Tuesday as thousands of orders jammed the system and disgruntled New Yorkers tweeted through their hunger…

About this series: Sincerely, Leaders of Color is written for everyone in the journalism industry who cares about creating a more supportive environment for journalists of color to do their best work. Have a question for the team? Drop it here and watch for it in a future column. This column is…

The Oklahoma Media Center launched in 2020 to amplify resources and move the journalism needle for the greater good. OMC strengthens and supports Oklahoma’s journalism ecosystem in three ways: by providing best-practices training, funding grants for innovative revenue and audience engagement and…

Among the frustrations of digital advertising, I think it’s fair to say that near the top is not knowing who and what to believe. While online advertising technology was supposed to provide us with near perfect data on who we were reaching, where we were reaching them, and what it was costing,…

What do Russian protesters have in common with Twitter users freaked out about Elon Musk reading their DMs and people worried about the criminalization of abortion? It would serve them all to be protected by a more robust set of design practices from companies developing technologies. Let’s back up.…

Can Uber be profitable? 🧵 1. It's crazy that this is still a question! Uber is 13 years old. It does biz in 72 countries and 10,500+ cities. Last year it had 118mn monthly active users and did 6.3bn rides/deliveries 2. Uber has always said it would reach profitability at scale, thanks to network…

“We can no longer afford to be the paper of record,” Brian McGrory, the editor of The Boston Globe, said in a gathering of metro daily editors on Tuesday. “We need to be the paper of interest.” He added: “There’s incredible competition for people’s time and their pocketbooks and their attention, and…

News businesses that are members of LION Publishers reported earning a median annual revenue of $125,000 in 2021 — a 33 percent increase compared to a self-reported median annual revenue of $94,000 in 2020. That’s according to the latest membership data we collected from nearly 400 LION members…

It’s sometimes easy to forget that treating the user experience as an art and science as it is practised now is a relatively recent addition in the journalism industry. The Atlantic, an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, aims to build on human-centred journalism and how it gains and…

Meaningful and sustainable growth opportunities in digital publishing come when newsrooms satisfy their audiences’ distinctive content user needs by properly understanding and utilising their market role and purpose. In this piece, I go back to the original case study from 2016 and the slide that…

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As newsrooms continue evolving to meet the changing needs of readers, and in an environment where opinions and false information are ever-present, the Statesman Journal is choosing to focus its newsroom resources and efforts on continuing to be a place the community can come for accurate, objective…

I first encountered Agile when I got a job in a library. I’d been hired to help get a new digital scholarship center off the ground and sometimes worked with the library’s software development team to build tools to support our projects. There were about six members of this team, and I noticed right…

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The Kano Model, developed in the 1970s and 1980s was originally used to study customer satisfaction. In this Sunday Rewind episode, we look back to when Mind the Product’s very own Co-Founder, Martin Eriksson, explains how it can be used to prioritise product development. Read more Sunday Rewind…

In early 2022, News is Out, a pioneering queer media collaborative featuring seven legacy media publishers (Bay Area Reporter and Windy City Times), officially launched. With generous funding from the Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge, News is Out organized and distributed a survey that…

By: David Cohn October 7, 2014 Nikki Usher had a great Columbia Journalism Review article “Startup site manifestos are press criticism” where she notes that startup news orgs like PandoDaily, Vox, FiveThirtyEight and more have gotten into the habit of writing manifestos (much like the New York Times…

(Shutterstock) By: David Cohn May 6, 2022 For a long time, journalists thought the “product” they produced was articles. It isn’t and it never was. For most of the 20th century, the product was the physical newspaper. The product was double-sided paper thrown at the doorstep every morning. Reporters…

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Some will mourn. Most probably didn’t even know it existed. The New York Times is sunsetting its Today’s Paper web app on May 16. A simple listing of every story in that day’s Times, with a minimum of distractions, the app — which works on computers and tablets, but not on phones — has been a solid…

Sections of a USA Today newspapers rest together, Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, in Norwood, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) By: Rick Edmonds May 5, 2022 Gannett marked steady progress on key goals of building paid digital subscriptions and stabilizing revenues as it announced quarterly financial results…

83% say Instagram will occupy a more important place in their strategy, and 40% will increase the number of newsletters In the newly released Publisher Trends Report 2022 from Echobox , the AI-powered

New York Times reaches 9.1 million subscribers Two things are very clear from the latest NYT results. The first is that the newspaper dearly needs to get a new standard stock image of its HQ, as it’s