Better Digital: Embracing data-based content and distribution strategies Unless a newspaper’s goal is to fade into oblivion, reducing print must be accompanied by investment in [...]
Expecting Pushback: How to tell readers change is coming Perhaps more than with any other issue, the publishers and newspaper leaders interviewed for this study [...]
Planning the Change: Picking which print days to cut A critical choice when reducing print publication frequency is selecting which days of the week to [...]
The Best Path: Reducing print on a thoughtful journey to digital Cutting a newspaper’s publishing days can save money by eliminating the pieces of the [...]
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 [...]
After interviewing dozens of journalists and analysts, we emerged with a lot of inspiration and a blueprint that can be applied to any newsroom. Although [...]
If a newsroom wants reporters to learn from experimentation, then the end point of every project is feedback and inspiration. “The most important part of [...]
In every single case, the journalists and data analysts we consulted said there’s one crucial factor that gets journalists on board with data experiments, and [...]
One of the most popular knocks on metrics-oriented newsrooms is best summarized as “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” [...]
How do newsroom metrics advocates pique their colleagues’ interest in using data? Many of the editors, data analysts and trainers we spoke to start by [...]