“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]