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    Lessons from 2020: How local newsrooms responded to unprecedented challenges

    The pandemic created new challenges for journalists trying to help audiences make sense of a contentious election, one already complicated by abrupt shifts in voting [...]

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    7 questions to help local media rebound in 2021

    Worldwide, the lives of most journalists have been consumed over the past 12 months by cataclysmic events both anticipated and unexpected. But no media organization [...]

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    What news publishers do to retain subscribers

    As the future of the news focuses more on reader revenue as its economic model, retention of subscribers and members is becoming more critical. It [...]

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    31 effective subscriber-retention ideas to steal

    We asked news publishers to answer, in their own words, these two questions: Is there anything you have changed or implemented recently that made a [...]

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    What publishers do, and don’t do, about retention

    We asked publishers whether or not they currently follow 38 different tactics that each may help with customer/subscriber retention in different ways. We found some [...]

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    9 subscriber retention strategies

    We asked news publishers to tell us how much potential value they thought different retention strategies could have. This was independent of whether the publisher [...]

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    American Press Institute announces 2021 Table Stakes cohort and coaches

    The American Press Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to helping transform news organizations for an audience-centered future, today announced eight news organizations and six coaches selected [...]

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    Is local journalism dying? Look closer.

    This is the second installment of a column from API Executive Director Tom Rosenstiel, published in partnership with the Poynter Institute, about the press and politics, [...]

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    Five publishers of color selected for 2021 Listening & Sustainability Lab from API and REJ

    The American Press Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to helping transform news organizations for an audience-centered future, is honored to announce the inaugural cohort of publishers [...]

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    Block Club Chicago’s coronavirus hotline connects readers with questions to reporters with answers

    People have questions. Journalists have answers. But it can be surprisingly difficult to connect the two. Someone wondering, for example, what COVID-19 testing options are [...]

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