How-tos of basic business practices Does managing a sales staff stretch your comfort zone? What are all the different products you offer? How much do you pay for paper clips? The content here distilled from the recent JA forum on increasing revenue, where publishers running local and niche news sites shared what they’ve learned about...
Posted by Emily Harris on March 21, 2012
Topics: Blog, Community, Distribution, Revenue Tags: Advertising, Alternative Revenue, Business Models, Collaboration, Community Engagement, Consulting, Content, Local News, Niche Publishing, Partnerships, Revenue, Training
The metaphor is reborn: “content is NOT king; it is queen. The point is that community building is king.” Does this yield collaboration as offspring? Affirmations and wisdom to inspire
Posted by Emily Harris on March 21, 2012
Topics: Blog, Community, Distribution, Revenue Tags: Advertising, Alternative Revenue, Business Models, Collaboration, Community Engagement, Consulting, Content, Local News, Niche Publishing, Partnerships, Revenue, Training
Nuggets from two days of talk on money and publishing. How do you build half a dozen revenue streams? What do partnerships look like through a financial lens? Tips to use, connections to make.
Posted by Emily Harris on March 15, 2012
Topics: Blog, Community, Revenue Tags: Advertising, Alternative Revenue, Business Models, Collaboration, Community Engagement, Consulting, Content, Local News, Niche Publishing, Partnerships, Revenue, Training
Knight report examining eight nonprofit news locals finds three need-to-succeed basics: executable biz strategy, innovative audience engagement, and tech to support. VoSD, TX Trib, MinnPost included.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on March 11, 2012
Topics: Community, Resources, Revenue, Technology Tags: Business Models, Community Engagement, Foundations, Grants, Knight Foundation, Local News, Nonprofit, Public Interest, Report
Niche news startups have unique advantages and particular challenges in the pursuit of sustainable revenue. Meet publishers featured in the sustainable journalism forum and compare notes.
Posted by Emily Harris on February 23, 2012
Topics: Blog, Community, Craft, Revenue Tags: Advertising, Alternative Revenue, Business Models, Hyperlocal, Investigative Journalism, Local News, Nonprofit, Revenue, Training, Web Traffic
True tales on the road to financially sustainable local news. Trade tips and experience with journalists, business experts and more. Tues., 2/28 and Wed., 2/29. Live window runs 2 to 3:30 EST daily.
Posted by Emily Harris on February 22, 2012
Topics: Blog, Community, Revenue Tags: Advertising, Alternative Revenue, Business Models, Deals, Hyperlocal, Local News, Print Media, Revenue
Released in 2009 in collaboration with the Aspen Institute, this paper explores what people require to inform their lives in the digital age and how journalism functions in service of this.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on October 25, 2011
Topics: Community, Distribution, Policy, Resources Tags: Community News, Digital Age, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Information Ecology, Internet, Knight Foundation, Local News, Newspapers, Radio, Television
"The broad landscape of online local news is easy to summarize. . .Newspapers and television stations dominate what local news can be found online."
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on October 25, 2011
Topics: Distribution, Resources, Technology Tags: Data, Local News, Matthew Hindman, Metrics, Online News
While recent PEW research reports TV remains the leading source people rely on for breaking news, newspapers (on and offline) are the leading source people turn to for the widest range of information.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on October 24, 2011
Topics: Community, Distribution, Resources, Revenue Tags: Baltimore, Community News, Information Ecology, Local News, New Media, Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism
"Are Stations Serving the Public Interest?" 2010 Study on LA local news content by the Annenberg School at USC.
Posted by Journalism Accelerator on October 21, 2011
Topics: Community, Distribution, Innovation, Resources, Revenue Tags: FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Local News, Los Angeles Media Market, Norman Lear Center, Public Interest, University of Southern California, USC
