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The Journalism Accelerator resource section features what other news producers have used, applications to up productivity across distribution, technology, revenue, craft, community, experiments, education and policy. We’re also collecting (and welcoming your recommended) resource listings from other industries that may help publishers gain efficiency.
Digest of Featured Links | Tweets for Keeps
Resource Listings
Monday, April 2
Google tries to help publishers, using engagement metrics for PR success, innovative new ways emerging to fund journalism, the need for transparency around political money, collaboration keys for news project success
Monday, April 2
Tweets for Keeps: February 2018
New tools to inform news coverage, strategies for higher email opens, re-imagining civil engagement, the “Economics of Content,” and an innovative youth publishing platform
Tuesday, January 30
Tweets for Keeps: January 2018
2017’s “most interesting” tools, tips for photojournalists returning from protests, how data-driven algorithms will impact journalism, a community conversation about engaging audience, new grant competition “pitches for peace”
Tuesday, December 26
Tweets for Keeps: December 2017
How to use an anonymous source, FOIA website guidance, multi-platform collaboration, a web app for measuring real world impact, an alliance for journalist safety Tools & Tactics How do you use an anonymous source? The mysteries of journalism everyone should know. …. My column https://t.co/NtNx02pwyK — Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) December 10, 2017 Tips & Techniques…
Resource Comments
Thursday, March 14
Dean M Gray on AltWeeklies Content Exchange
To be accurate I never suggested that AAN was not accepting new members. True, AAN does publish a policy about membership with membership criteria stated... “we can’t exactly describe what an alt weekly is, but we know what it is when we see it....
Wednesday, March 13
Lisa Skube on AltWeeklies Content Exchange
Hey Dean, thanks for bringing your voice to the conversation. You raise a good question asking "what is an alt weekly is" but I would suggest many newsrooms across the nation face this. The field of news broadly continues to redefine its identity & r...
Wednesday, March 13
Dean M Gray on AltWeeklies Content Exchange
The problem with AAN is it has devolved into a self-determining "good old boys and girls club" and, as membership falls, not admitting new members. With a membership policy of "we can't exactly describe what an alt weekly is" how can the organizatio...
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PauPress
One of the first seamless customer relationship management (CRM) systems for WordPress allows you to customize work flow, commerce, data and community with a free or paid version.Posted on August 2, 2013
Topics: Resources Technology
Nonprofit Journalism – A Growing but Fragile Part of the U.S. News System
Pew report on recent success of nonprofit news outlets offers cautions and optimism, with a funding roadmap of how a number of outfits are achieving profitability.Small Biz Survival
Illuminating the challenges faced by small businesses in small towns and rural areas, with insight into useful tactics for achieving success and overcoming challenges.twitonomy
Twitonomy offers detailed, visualized analytics about every aspect of your Twitter account with both free and premium content. Easily browse, search, filter, learn – iterate & repeat.Posted on June 1, 2013
Topics: Resources Technology
B Corps
Can a company be profitable and benefit its community? B Corp certification ensures businesses meet "rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency."Posted on June 1, 2013
Topics: Distribution Resources
Just wanted to let the JA community know that we've submitted a Knight News Challenge open government grant application to expand OpenMissouri to our cities. If you'd like to know more, or support the application, go here: https://www.newschallenge.o...