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    Choose a topic for which you can create ‘obsessives’

    “Create obsessives,” digital director of Vanity Fair Mike Hogan said when I asked him about why Vanity Fair built a Hollywood-specific section. Successful single-subject news [...]

    May 7, 2015
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    How to create and execute a niche content strategy

    After the first step in building a niche vertical of identifying the topic, which involves assessing your audience, your brand, your capacity and the potential [...]

    May 7, 2015
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    Worksheet: Plan your single-subject news site

    The American Press Institute developed this worksheet as a guide to getting you started with identifying a topic and building a single-subject news site. Before [...]

    May 7, 2015
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    How to produce value and revenue with digital video

    Digital video has become a market imperative — something every publisher must understand and do well, regardless of one’s history. Consider three statistics: More than [...]

    February 5, 2015
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    Understanding the digital video economy

    The internet has blurred distinctions between print and video-based organizations and undermined the geographical divides that once structured the print news landscape. It has created [...]

    February 5, 2015
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    Knowing, growing and measuring audience for digital video

    We have never had more information about audience behavior than we do today. In the past a newspaper measured its success in part by circulation [...]

    February 5, 2015
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    Good video content: What’s working for news publishers, what isn’t

    Media scholars note that new media imitates its predecessor before evolving into its own distinct form. Early newsreels imitated movies. The first television news shows [...]

    February 5, 2015
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    Building a news organization’s capacity for video

    Despite the differences among the many organizations producing digital video, a consensus appears to be forming around three organizational best practices. They include: Create clarity [...]

    February 5, 2015
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    Digital video strategy checklist for publishers

    Drawing from the best practices detailed in this Strategy Study, here is a checklist of factors to help you tell if your news organization is [...]

    February 5, 2015
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    The best ways for publishers to build credibility through transparency

    As so much in the world of news and information changes, the fundamental bond of trust between journalists and the communities they serve is one [...]

    September 24, 2014
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