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    How customer service can build trust and engagement with audiences

    With advertising becoming a less reliable source of revenue for the embattled journalism industry, more news outlets are turning toward sources of consumer revenue to [...]

    May 24, 2021
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    How local news organizations are taking steps to recover from a year of trauma

    More than a year after the global pandemic became official, local journalism still grapples with the fallout — not only from the coronavirus but also [...]

    May 20, 2021
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    How newsrooms can do less work – but have more impact

    Editor’s note, 2024: Want to learn how API’s Emily Ristow trains news organizations on Stop Doing, and how outlets have successfully implemented this practice into [...]

    April 20, 2021
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    Getting it right: Strategies for truth-telling in a time of misinformation and polarization

    There was a time when being a journalist meant pursuing a story by reporting the available information from as many sources as possible, writing the [...]

    December 11, 2019
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    Cutting print: Making it work when publishing days must go

    When a large U.S. newspaper cuts print publication days or curtails home delivery, headlines may scream media apocalypse. But for years, newspapers here and there [...]

    August 26, 2019
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    How to build a metrics-savvy newsroom

    Journalists have a reputation for dismissing data about their stories. But it’s undeserved. After all, the axiom “if it bleeds, it leads” describes a newsroom [...]

    March 13, 2019
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    What it takes to shift a news organization to reader revenue

    Launching a paywall is easy. Pivoting a whole business from an advertising-centric mindset to one focused on reader revenue is not. Despite 10 years of [...]

    October 2, 2018
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    How a culture of listening strengthens reporting and relationships

    When Journal Star executive editor Dennis Anderson created a reader advisory board with residents of Peoria’s predominately African American South Side in 2014, he knew [...]

    September 4, 2018
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    Going forward: How ethnic and mainstream media can collaborate in changing communities

    The first thing a reporter needs to know about collaborating with an ethnic media journalist, said Univision host Jorge Ramos, is not to call him [...]

    July 19, 2018
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    Journalists can change the way they build stories to create organic news fluency

    When journalists talk about how they wish the public could recognize good reporting from bad reporting or even fakery, the subject often turns to whether [...]

    May 9, 2018
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