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    Newsletter strategies to build retention, trust and revenue

    Establishing a newsletter strategy can help you set goals and quantify success — or even determine whether a newsletter is a good fit for your audience. 

    August 15, 2023
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    How to audit sources: A guide to help you get started

    This guide will help you track sources in your journalism. API assembled a cohort of newsrooms in 2023 to track the diversity of people quoted [...]

    August 9, 2023
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    Want to protect democracy? Support the mental health of journalists

    If you want a truly accurate and helpful public square, one capable of helping a pluralistic democratic republic survive, you have to think about the well-being of the people who make up the press.

    August 3, 2023
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    Media can engage Millennials and Gen Z in community discussion. Here is where to start.

    If you care about civic discourse, young Americans and the health of local news organizations, here are some helpful insights we found from the survey.

    June 21, 2023
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    Opinion journalism and sustainability: Publishers find out what works

    Opinion editors today are actively engaged in demonstrating to their publishers that their content contributes to the bottom line. While they say their primary mission is to inform the community, engage in meaningful discourse and influence outcomes, they also see reader data, and reader revenue, as an important part of their work.

    June 8, 2023
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    Navigating burnout as a journalist

    Ragland offers a “starter pack” for journalists to begin addressing burnout, although she notes that it’ll be difficult to level up until news organizations align in their vision and strategy to serve and support the whole journalist and not just the work of that journalist. 

    May 25, 2023
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    Four ways to engage news readers amid social platform flux

    With Facebook’s continued de-prioritization and divestment from news, the ongoing Twitter saga and ByteDance data security concerns, there’s a lot for newsrooms to navigate when it comes to social media platforms.

    April 4, 2023
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    Beyond Twitter and Meta: What’s next for social media

    When Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter at the end of October 2022, it signaled the end of the golden age of social media [...]

    February 13, 2023
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    Helpful tips: Messaging metrics in the newsroom

    A weekly newsletter. Open office hours. One-on-one chats. These are just some ideas to consider if you want to get more people talking about metrics [...]

    January 19, 2023
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    Addressing misinformation with audiences under 40: An industry challenge

    News organizations need to figure out how to show Gen Z and Millennials why their content is more trustworthy than everything else on the internet

    December 13, 2022
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