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    Determining newsroom coverage style and practices

    Deciding how to cover refugee issues will be different for every organization. Newsrooms vary widely in size, structure and audiences, and the journalists interviewed for [...]

    December 18, 2017
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    How to cover local refugee communities: Strategies for newsrooms and reporters

    The word “refugee” evokes a certain image: people fleeing persecution or war-torn areas, living under harsh refugee camp conditions, starting a new life in a [...]

    December 18, 2017
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    Methodology: HCD research

    Ethnographic research, or the study of people in their culture, is the core part of human-centered design. Unlike market research or focus grouping, which use [...]

    December 7, 2017
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    The 3 types of news subscribers: Why they pay and how to convert them

    Introduction Who pays for news? Why do they pay? Who does not pay for news and why not? Earlier this year, we conducted a nationally [...]

    December 7, 2017
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    News subscriber archetypes

    When it comes to paying for news and information, our research found that subscribers tend to fit one of three archetypes, each with different habits, [...]

    December 7, 2017
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    Other insights

    In addition to the archetypes, we identified six other notable insights related to how people think about news subscriptions. These findings are themes that emerged [...]

    December 7, 2017
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    Doing big projects with minimal newsroom resources – without compromising

    Some things about accountability journalism will never change. Any important investigative project will require patience, persistence, extreme fact-checking and high ethical standards. It’ll involve a [...]

    November 16, 2017
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    Help Wanted: The ultimate social media job description

    What does an effective social media team look like? Scott Kleinberg says it starts with a leadership position that solidifies social media as an integral [...]

    November 14, 2017
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    Want a social media team that’s ready for 2018? Here’s what you can do now.

    What can you do now to create a social media team that’s ready for the accountability reporting you’ll do in 2018 — and in upcoming [...]

    November 14, 2017
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    Social media teams today: A summary of what we learned

    First, our definition of the “social media team.”  The people handling social media in newsrooms might not strictly be a “team” and might be called [...]

    November 14, 2017
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