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    How to stop doing work that underperforms: Advice from 4 newsrooms

    One of the biggest challenges we’ve heard from the newsrooms we work with is that there’s not enough time. Journalism has always been a high-stress [...]

    August 11, 2021
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    Track the diversity of your sources with Source Matters — an easy automated tool from API

    In recent months we at the American Press Institute have taken a deep dive into how news organizations can expand their sourcing to represent fairly [...]

    June 21, 2021
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    Challenging conventional customer service methods

    Integrating departments to break down silos, optimizing the customer experience and investing in high-touch service are all effective ways for news outlets to improve their [...]

    May 24, 2021
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    Investing in ‘high-touch’ customer service

    Automated phone systems, online self-service portals and other low-touch tactics have become the standard when it comes to customer service across industries. Companies these days [...]

    May 24, 2021
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    Making the customer experience frictionless

    After breaking down organizational silos and integrating different systems, news outlets should get more granular in assessing areas where they can improve the customer service [...]

    May 24, 2021
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    Breaking down silos and integrating departments for better communication

    As news outlets increasingly rely on digital subscriptions as a primary revenue source, many are finding that barriers separating their print and digital functions — [...]

    May 24, 2021
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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
  • Article

    7 questions to help local media rebound in 2021

    Worldwide, the lives of most journalists have been consumed over the past 12 months by cataclysmic events both anticipated and unexpected. But no media organization [...]

    April 5, 2021
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    What news publishers do to retain subscribers

    As the future of the news focuses more on reader revenue as its economic model, retention of subscribers and members is becoming more critical. It [...]

    March 22, 2021
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    31 effective subscriber-retention ideas to steal

    We asked news publishers to answer, in their own words, these two questions: Is there anything you have changed or implemented recently that made a [...]

    March 22, 2021
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