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How National Digital Networks Are Transforming Local News Axios, ProPublica, The Athletic and Chalkbeat Take Different Approaches to Going Local
National digital news organizations are increasingly entering local media markets, creating a new model for serving local audiences whose traditional news sources have suffered from ...
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Two Major Industry Players Join Medill’s New Subscriber Index
Two major news industry organizations, McClatchy and Mather Economics, have signed on to the new Medill Subscriber Engagement Index, a tool designed to give local ...
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8 Reasons Why Email Newsletters Are a Game-Changer for Local News
In the early 2000s, we were supposed to write blogs. Then we weren’t. In the mid-2010s, we pivoted to video. Then we hit pause. So ...
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How Is Boise Like a Suburb of Nashville When It Comes to News? Professors Call for Deeper Thinking About Media Markets and Innovation
In a project launched at Northwestern University, researchers are working on sophisticated ways to identify news media markets that are similar to each other. The ...
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WATCH Newstown: Medill Professor’s Documentary on the Closing of the Youngstown Vindicator
When Northwestern University professor and video journalist Craig Duff heard that the 150-year-old Youngstown Vindicator was closing, he resolved to go back to the area ...
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Local Heroes and National Solutions Discussed at Medill’s Youngstown Film Event Ohio’s Senator Brown ‘Willing to Vote’ for Exemption to Help Local News Outlets Bargain With Tech Giants
Speaking at a Northwestern University online event to debut a new documentary on the local news crisis, Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio expressed support for ...
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Arkansas’ Print-to-iPad Switch Inspires Loyalty, but Some Miss the Rubber Bands
Local news publishers across the country are asking themselves this existential question: How do I convert subscribers from print to pixels? Successfully overseeing that transition ...
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What Happens When a Newspaper Dies? Medill Professor’s Film Looks at Impact in Youngstown
The Youngstown Vindicator, a 150-year-old newspaper, announced in the summer of 2019 that it was closing. The fate of the newspaper known as the “Vindy” ...
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How Covid-19 Has Changed Beat Reporting
As the coronavirus spread across the country, local news outlets reacted to the economic disruption with pay cuts, layoffs and furloughs. They also made a ...
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Medill’s New Subscriber Index Will Help Local News Outlets Tie Readers to Revenue Index Includes a ‘What-If’ Tool Using Current Data to Predict Outcomes of Strategic Decisions
Northwestern University researchers have completed their prototype of a Medill Subscriber Engagement Index for digital news and expect to launch the innovative tool by the ...
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Digital Start-ups: Great Local News Hope or Disappointment?
As many legacy news outlets struggle to survive, industry analysts are looking to digital start-ups as a promising way to revive coverage of local news. ...
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Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan on ‘Ghosting the News’ ‘We Have to Save Journalism in Whatever Form That Is, Which May Have Nothing to Do With the Printed Page,’ says Medill Grad
Margaret Sullivan, media columnist for the Washington Post, is out with a new book, “Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy,” published ...
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Can Local News Outlets Ride the Wave of New COVID-19 Subscribers? ‘This Is a Moment of Reckoning’
Local news outlets are working hard to keep the digital subscribers they’ve gained from COVID-19 coverage, and they’re seeing encouraging signs that the newcomers are ...
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Reporters Navigate Remote-Work Challenges During Pandemic
Creative Loafing Tampa Bay moved into a new office last December. Editor-in-chief Ray Roa was on paternity leave while the other employees settled into an ...