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Focusing: Why the Chicago Defender Went Digital-Only
The Chicago Defender, a highly influential black newspaper founded in 1905, announced in July 2019 that it would go online-only because of dwindling print circulation. ...
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Diversifying: How a Newspaper Publisher Branched Out
Penny Muse Abernathy, a professor and the Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina, has done groundbreaking work ...
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Medill’s Small-Markets Study Reinforces Importance of Creating Reader Habit
A Northwestern University data analysis last year on three big-city news outlets showed that a regular reader habit and strong coverage of local news were ...
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Webinar Highlights How Gannett Is Using Medill’s Research Findings
A recent webinar for the News Media Alliance highlighted how research by Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative has helped the Gannett news chain come ...
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Medill Going on Road Show to Share Local News Insights Medill will discuss their local news research findings at conferences for Newspaper Association Managers, News Leaders Association, and Online News Association.
Northwestern University’s Medill Local News initiative, whose data analysis has identified reader habit as vital to retaining online subscribers, is taking its research findings on ...
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Global Seminar on Local News: Videos of the Sessions Medill and Germany’s Adenauer Foundation Highlight Journalists’ Challenges Worldwide
Here are videos from June 25, 2019, sessions of the Global Seminar on Local News, co-sponsored by Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative and Germany’s ...
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Common Problem for Local Journalists Worldwide: Threats and Intimidation Seminar Hosted by Medill and German Foundation Highlights Dangers to Media
Joie Chen, a former CNN journalist who is Northwestern University’s Director of Medill Programs/Washington, was talking to the Global Seminar on Local News about how ...
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The Local News Crisis Circles the Globe, Seminar Finds Feeling Pressure from Tech Companies, Foreign Journalists Are Scrambling. One Outlet Is Even Buying a Tour Bus Company.
The financial pressures on local news are a worldwide problem, according to participants in the Global Seminar on Local News, co-sponsored by Northwestern University’s Medill ...
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Sobering Reality for News Outlets: Your Readers May Be Elsewhere 99% of the Time
Here’s a question for local news producers: What are your readers doing when they’re not visiting you? That’s the question asked by Northwestern University’s Spiegel ...
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Medill Teams With German Foundation for Global Seminar on Local News
The Medill Local News Initiative and Germany’s Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung foundation will host the Global Seminar on Local News, a June conference in Chicago to discuss worldwide ...
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Knight Lab’s Class Brings Design Principles to Local News
A new Northwestern University class called Design for Local News isn’t trying to make minor tweaks in the current media environment. It’s going straight to ...
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Medill’s Franklin on Why Local News Outlets Aren’t Jumping in Apple’s ‘Magic Mixer’
The recent launch of Apple News Plus is the biggest test yet for news bundling—the idea of selling access to a wide variety of news ...
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The ‘eHarmony of Political Coverage’ and Other Local News Innovations Medill’s Research on Digital Subscriptions Empowers Newsrooms
Here’s a neat trick that other newsrooms might want to steal. During Chicago’s recent election, the Tribune ran a quiz headlined, “Which Chicago mayoral candidate do ...
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USC’s Crosstown Project Turns Big Data into Local News
Gabriel Kahn says his data project, Crosstown, delivers “the kind of information that allows citizens to be the squeaky wheel.” Kahn, a professor at the ...