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Keep your community engaged: Speed up your website

Community News Leadership 3.0

Wed, August 12, 2015 | 9:09 a.m. PDT

As the internet becomes an increasingly mobile experience, website performance can once again make or break your connection with your community. The good news is that smaller local sites might more easily be able to improve performance than major news outlets, which could yield an advantage with local readers.

Local journalism haves and have-nots emerge in study of news ecosystems

News for Digital Innovators

Mon, August 10, 2015 | 10:00 p.m. PDT

by Nancy Yoshihara

A new study by Rutgers points to “a specific type of problem in local journalism, one in which lower-income communities are dramatically underserved relative to wealthier communities, and in which lower-income communities receive the bulk of their news from a smaller range of sources.”

Mark your calendar for fall journalism conferences

News for Digital Innovators

Sun, August 2, 2015 | 10:00 p.m. PDT

by Nancy Yoshihara

With summer passing quickly, it’s a good time to think about upcoming conferences that offer opportunities to hone and update your journalism skills, catch emerging trends and grow your network of colleagues.

Community storytelling with the StoryCorps app

Community News Leadership 3.0

Tue, July 28, 2015 | 3:57 p.m. PDT

by Amy Gahran

Sharing personal stories is a crucial part of how communities work, and how they might be strengthened or healed. The nationally renowned oral history project StoryCorps offers a mobile app that makes it easy to collect, aggregate, and share stories about any community

Can storytelling and engagement techniques from investigative reporting help community groups reach out?

News for Digital Innovators

Mon, July 27, 2015 | 10:00 p.m. PDT

by Nancy Yoshihara

That is the question at the center of a new collaborative investigative reporting project in New Jersey led by the Center for Investigative Reporting and funded by a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.

Professionalizing ad sales yields revenue gains for news startups

Community News Leadership 3.0

Wed, July 22, 2015 | 10:00 p.m. PDT

by Michele McLellan

A new report underscores the value of hiring professionals and setting a rate structure for ad sales operations at news startups.

Autotune, a new open source interface to create reusable news apps

News for Digital Innovators

Mon, July 13, 2015 | 10:00 p.m. PDT

by Nancy Yoshihara

Creating a visual or graphic to accompany your story, or in some cases to do the storytelling, typically is a one-time shot. What if you had a news app that could be used repeatedly to produce visuals for different stories?

News start up survey: Revenue growth, capacity challenges

Community News Leadership 3.0

Sun, July 12, 2015 | 10:00 p.m. PDT

by Michele McLellan

The 2015 survey of "born on the web" online news publishers is published today by Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, my collaborator in this effort. Like previous surveys, it shows progress and pitfalls.