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    Draw upon your community’s passions to design niche mobile products

    Thinking about any potential new product should start with identifying the audience and its needs. Consider the major annual events in your community, the popular [...]

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    Draw upon your staff’s passions to create niche mobile products

    Once publishers have an idea of the potential audience segments for niche apps in their market, they need to look internally at the resources and [...]

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    Adopt a user-centered design process to plan your niche mobile app

    If you aren’t familiar with user-centered design, you can infer a lot just from the name. It is a process that puts the intended users [...]

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    Unleash your hacker culture to get an app built

    Now you have a pretty good idea of a mobile product you might build. You know what your audience wants, what your staff can sustain, [...]

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    Make room for ‘beta’ app experiments to grow

    Steve Jobs famously told the team building the first Macintosh computer in the early 1980s, “Real artists ship.” That motto echoes as the delivery of [...]

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    Obstacles you will face in creating niche mobile apps

    In the earlier chapters we have shown why targeting a niche audience with a specialized mobile product is a powerful model that fits the modern [...]

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    Strategy worksheet: Your niche mobile app plan

    We developed a worksheet with a series of planning questions to get you started with conceiving and creating niche mobile products that are right for [...]

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    What tech trends will change journalism next: 8 good questions with futurist Amy Webb

    Amy Webb thinks a lot about how emerging tech might affect the news industry, from anticipatory computing to the increased usage of smart virtual personal [...]

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    Understanding the rise of sponsored content

    In recent years news publishers have grappled with an uncomfortable realization: The traditional revenue streams of display advertising and reader subscriptions may not be sufficient [...]

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    Why sponsored content is promising for news organizations

    The potential for native advertising is enormous. For some publishers it’s already more than just potential — BuzzFeed draws all of its revenue from the [...]

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