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Community and outreach editor Denise Cheng learned power listening and deep documentation in her months with the JA. She is leaving her JA post to make the most of a semester at CUNY.
Posted by Denise Cheng on March 10, 2012
Topics: Blog Community
Plenty of experience at play in today’s forum on increasing revenue for local news sites. The thread is still open and well worth a read. Here are some highlights: Of all the themes running through today’s conversation, I pick the word of the day as NEED. Start with this point from Dan Grech, news director of...
Posted by Emily Harris on February 28, 2012
Topics: Blog Community Distribution Experiments Revenue
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
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
Open Secrets predicts 2012 election spending to top $6B, up a billion since just '08. For you: a wealth of resources from the December JA forum to strengthen your election coverage and up your game.
Posted by Emily Harris on December 30, 2011
Topics: Blog Community Craft Experiments Revenue Technology
We went into last week’s forum suspecting the 2012 election offers fresh opportunities for local news sites to shine. Based on the ideas and on-the-ground experiences participants shared, we came out convinced. Evelyn Larrubia, editorial director of the Investigative News Network, wrote this in the forum: …newspapers across the country are not doing as thorough...
Posted by Emily Harris on December 15, 2011
Topics: Blog Community Craft Experiments Revenue Technology
This is a quick post for the community, reporting out real time on what’s been developing in the forum over the past couple of days. We convened the conversation in slices: Day one the forum explored collaboration, yesterday we dove into collaboration, today the final segment of this conversation addresses money. The content stream contributors are generously offering insights, curiosity, tools, experience, suggestions, hopes, and frustrations around the question in play. And behind the scenes, crucially, we’re tracking how this is all unfolding.
Posted by Lisa Skube on December 9, 2011
Topics: Blog Community Experiments Technology
There is conversation for conversation’s sake, and there is conversation with purpose. JA forums are designed to be relevant, interesting, informative, and useful. In this final of three posts analyzing our recent forum on the Value of Local TV News, we explore a set of tangible artifacts we’ve distilled from the conversation, and envision how...
Posted by Emily Harris on December 5, 2011
Topics: Blog Community Distribution Experiments Revenue Technology
Each JA forum comes to life through a community outreach campaign. In this post, we show how we do this engagement work. We hope you might be able to mulch some of this back into your own work – that this behind-the-scenes view inspires your own ideas on how to deepen your community relationships. First,...
Posted by Lisa Skube on December 2, 2011
Topics: Blog Community Distribution Experiments Revenue Technology
What kind of 2012 election coverage do you want to bring your readers? Next week the JA presents a curated online forum designed to help maximize the yield of local election coverage by exploring tools, techniques and collaborations aimed at deeper community engagement. We’ll talk about money too – advertisers are increasingly training their campaign...
Posted by Emily Harris on December 1, 2011
Topics: Blog Community Distribution Experiments Revenue Technology
