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    How to listen to your audience and learn from them

    In between the projects that often fuel engagement efforts, there are other opportunities for journalists to listen. The phrase “Grow bigger ears” has become a [...]

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    How to engage your audiences in 5 key steps

    Engaging audiences in journalism can take many forms, ranging in scope from small actions to immersive projects. There is no single formula for the best [...]

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    What exactly is engagement and what difference does it make?

    Though “engagement” is a word journalists hear a lot these days, its function can be tough to articulate. For many, the goal of engagement seems [...]

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    The best ways to build audience and relevance by listening to and engaging your community

    People don’t just consume news today. They participate in it. People have access to vast and varied information. They pursue news on their own time, [...]

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    Charting new ground: The ethical terrain of nonprofit journalism

    Overview A different kind of revenue, one that has nothing to do with advertising or subscriptions, is playing a larger role in journalism today. Nonprofit [...]

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    Don’t compromise standards to please funders

    This essay is part of “Charting new ground: The ethical terrain of nonprofit journalism,” API research exploring the philanthropic funding of journalism. Read the other [...]

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    Download a PDF and topline results: The ethical terrain of nonprofit journalism

    For printing and offline viewing, a PDF of the report and the topline results for the nonprofit news outlets, commercial news outlets, and funders are available [...]

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    Methodology for our survey of media and funders

    The surveys of foundations and media organizations do not represent of all media-funding foundations, nonprofit media organizations or commercial news outlets in the United States. [...]

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    Essays on the ethics of funders and nonprofit media

    Surveys can be a valuable research tool because they can offer some sense of scale. But they do not allow respondents to articulate their ideas [...]

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    Check out funders and maintain editorial firewall

    This essay is part of “Charting new ground: The ethical terrain of nonprofit journalism,” API research exploring the philanthropic funding of journalism. Read the other [...]

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