Chris Horne, founder and publisher of The Devil Strip, an Akron, Ohio-based arts and culture magazine, likes to compare his publication to a small brewery. But instead of making craft beer, it [...]
As news organizations across the globe shift to a greater emphasis on digital audience revenue, much of their collective energy is rightly focused on acquiring new paying supporters. But as these [...]
As local publishers have moved to more reader supported business models such as subscriptions and memberships, outlets have had to find new and innovative ways to convince their communities to [...]
Earlier this year, groups of students raced through the Calgary Public Library searching for information on issues that would define the future of the city: public transportation, green energy, [...]
We all know how the traditional journalism process works: Reporters think up story ideas or get a tip, they talk to sources, they produce their coverage, and then they hit publish. Rinse and [...]
Last month, The South Florida Sun Sentinel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for “exposing failings by school and law enforcement officials before and after the deadly shooting [...]
How do you build community when you serve an audience that is spread across five states? That’s a question High Plains Public Radio, which broadcasts to Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and [...]
Chicago voters made history last month when they elected Lori Lightfoot as the first African-American woman and the first openly gay person to serve as the city’s mayor. And while the mayoral [...]
A few months ago, a hoax Twitter account purporting to be Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib made some waves online. The Detroit Free Press covered the story, but it also took to Twitter to try and [...]
Practical ways the entire news organization can work together to keep your hard-won subscribers Neil Chase is the CEO of CALMatters, a non-partisan, non-profit journalism venture dedicated to how [...]
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