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    Ask audiences what questions they have about your reporting

    What do readers wish they understood about your reporting — and what do these gaps mean for your efforts at building news literacy and trust? [...]

    October 31, 2019
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    How to retain subscribers by keeping their engagement levels high over time

    Say you’ve implemented a well-designed program to onboard new customers. It’s getting them to look back favorably on their decision to subscribe, and to learn [...]

    October 21, 2019
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    Want to find time for more enterprise reporting? Dive into analytics.

    Analytics don’t have to clash with journalistic values. Here’s how one team of reporters has used analytics to reinforce its mission. When journalists think of [...]

    July 1, 2019
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    From print-first to audience-first: Using analytics to change the newsroom mindset

    For the past two years, the Virginian Pilot’s newsroom goals have not included a print component — a huge shift in its 154-year history. “Our [...]

    June 1, 2019
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    How surveillance concerns affect national security journalists

    This piece is part of API’s Research Review series, which highlights academic research that could be relevant and useful to the news industry. We also hope that [...]

    April 17, 2019
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    How to use analytics to identify and build a popular new beat

    A local news publisher in Norfolk, VA, has been using data to drive editorial decisions — a journey closely tied to its digital transition since [...]

    April 1, 2019
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    What are the keys to an effective subscription offer page?

    Well-constructed offer pages are vital to the goal of increasing reader revenue. They can influence a user’s entire perception of your publication and service — [...]

    February 6, 2019
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    Fact-checkers adapt to heightened combat, facing politicians who are repeating lies and pushing back

    Fact-checkers in the past year have come to resemble emergency physicians doing triage in a raging epidemic. The amount of work is overwhelming, but they [...]

    January 30, 2019
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    How journalists are using DocumentCloud to support facts in their stories

    Anti-press sentiment, fueled in no small part by President Trump, has left news organizations looking for new ways to bolster lagging trust. One way to [...]

    December 19, 2018
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    How to understand different reader types and drive each type to subscribe

    The path from a casual reader to a paying subscriber isn’t a short one, but by understanding how audiences get from one place to another, [...]

    December 5, 2018
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