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News Leadership 3.0 -- Luke Wroblewski on how news organizations can go...
By now, most daily news publishers are making at least some attempt to make their content accessible on cell phones and tablets. But usually their strategies focus on “shovelware”—automatically...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- 6 ways to think like a “mobile first”...
Technology keeps changing our experience of media. This week my friend and colleague Steve Buttry (director of community engagement & social media at Journal Register Co. and Digital First Media)...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Lawsuit to watch: Who owns journalists’ social media...
In the past couple of years, many news organizations have introduced social media policies covering both branded accounts and the personal social media activities of news staff. A lawsuit currently...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- A New Years Wish Journalism curmudgeons, please get...
In the news business, there’s plenty of reason to be cranky as 2012 opens. But I see little that is as self-defeating as journalism curmudgeonry - the general attitude that traditional news...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Readability tools break digital advertising. How to...
By Amy Gahran People generally dislike ads, and will avoid them if possible. This is a hard truth for the news business, especially for digital news publishers. “Readability” tools are getting...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Will Patch’s fate foretell the future of local online...
2012 may be the year that the other shoe drops at Patch - reports suggest AOL’s chain of some 800 local online news sites is under pressure. But if Patch does disappear, don’t take that as evidence...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- At local online Cary Citizen, multiple revenue streams...
By Julia Scott One secret behind the profitable local news site Cary Citizen is that none of the four founders has a journalism background. But what they lack in news sense they make up for in business...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- From outside the newsroom, former insiders offer...
Two top editors who left their newspapers last year capture reflections on what editors might have done differently years ago to push bolder change in their newsrooms - and might still do.
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Digital tools for truth vigilantes, part 1
By Amy Gahran Over the past week, the truth vigilante flap stirred up by New York Times public editor Arthur Brisbane has sparked tremendous conversation, mostly concerning whether journalists should...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Truth Goggles: digital tools for truth vigilantes, part 2
News from anywhere, even the New York Times, always warrants a skeptical eye. Could digital tools help alert news consumers when sources quoted in news stories might be bending the truth? On Tuesday I...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Knight Community Information Challenge - A way to...
The Knight Community Information Challenge provides unique opportunities for community foundations and news innovators to partner in creating or improving projects that engage their communities in...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- What journalists can learn from Wikipedia about...
By Amy Gahran Recently Fabrice Florin took a new job: the former executive director of NewsTrust.net (a social network where people find and share quality journalism) is now the product manager for new...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- How to bring journalists and Wikipedia closer together?
EDITOR’S NOTE: Yesterday KDMC published an interview with Fabrice Florin, who’s now in charge of engaging new editors at Wikimedia (the nonprofit that supports Wikipedia and other projects). That...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- What news projects are community foundations funding?...
Local foundations are becoming key players in the emerging local news ecosystem by funding news and information projects or creating their own. Here’s a look at some of the projects that have attracted...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Community engagement tips: Help people understand...
By Amy Gahran Community engagement can be a huge challenge for any media project. But for four years now, the Mobile Voices project in Los Angeles has helped immigrant and low-wage workers create...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Edmonds News taps streaming sports events for revenue
By Julia Scott One week after a pink slip capped her 32 year career in journalism and communications, Teresa Wippel became a news entrepreneur. She has found success tapping into a revenue stream...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- How to build connections with programmers for...
By Amy Gahran If you want to create successful media projects or informational services for communities, you’ll need skilled programmers—and they don’t just pop out of thin air. Community foundations,...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- From news publisher to convener: Making the shift to...
By Amy Gahran A regional economic development initiative in Iowa has captured the imagination of Chuck Peters, longtime head of the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Getting directly involved meant facing a...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- For community foundation media projects: Rules of the...
As community foundations become active leaders in local news and information, many are learning they don’t need to go it alone. A variety of different partnership models are emerging and they are...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- At Knight Media Learning Seminar, ideas and tools for...
When the Incourage Community Foundation in rural central Wisconsin won a Knight Information Challenge grant in 2008, foundation leaders thought they would develop a local news website to replace a...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- A few lessons for foundations as the Chicago News Coop...
Chicago News Coop, a two-year old nonprofit news site, has announced it is suspending publication Sunday and reevaluating its future.
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Philadelphia: Neil Budde takes helm of emerging local...
By Amy Gahran After a year-long search, Temple University has hired Neil Budde to lead the Philadelphia-area news and information collaborative funded by the William Penn Foundation. As the founding...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Importantly (but not surprisingly), Pew study says...
A new report documents how newspapers are struggling to find a financial footing on a dynamic digital landscape - a fight that is hampered by tensions between old and new and resistance to changes that...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Mobile skills: New gateway drug to community engagement
By Amy Gahran This year, smartphones are beginning to comprise the majority of U.S. mobile handsets in use. So mobile skills are becoming crucial for anyone who wants to stay informed and connected, or...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Public interest news start ups: Few answers but the...
In experimentation with online public service journalism, there are few set answers about how news providers can be sustained. But a new report from the Investigative News Network goes a long way in...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- How to build your mobile news audience? New Pew...
By Amy Gahran Increasingly, people are turning to mobile devices to get news throughout the day. Thus, mobile was the big trend highlighted in this year’s State of the Media report from the Pew Project...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Lessons in entrepreneurship: It’s the connection, stupid
By Julia Scott As bargainbabe.com has developed, I have fundamentally changed the way I see myself in business. Once an online content creator and filter, I now view myself as a vital connector of...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Training: A change agent for news organizations
The sad demise of the American Press Institute is a reminder of the newspaper industry’s lack of commitment to training and professional development - and why that’s one of its biggest mistakes as...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Faces of Black Men: Blending Pinterest, Tumblr for...
By Amy Gahran Last month, Dori Maynard had just begun experimenting with Pinterest as a way to use images to counter stereotypes. When the shooting death of Trayvon Martin started making national...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Lessons in entrepreneurship: Identify an information...
By Julia Scott Homicide Watch connects families and friends of homicide victims with the courts in Washington, DC, where most killings go uncovered by local mainstream media. Founder Laura Amico recaps...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Local news enthusiasts: Pew research hints at...
By Amy Gahran The vast majority of U.S. adults are really into local news, Pew research shows. How might ethnic and community media outlets capitalize on this as more media goes digital and mobile?...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Why the mobile web is slow, and your mobile site must...
By Amy Gahran Take out your cell phone, look at it and count to nine. That’s just slightly less time than it takes the average web page to load on a mobile web browser over a U.S. wireless carrier’s...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Funding mobile for social impact, including community...
By Amy Gahran Is engaging underserved communities part of your mission? Increasingly you’ll need to reach them via mobile media. A new white paper from the ZeroDivide Foundation explains how can you do...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Mobile for building the ethnic/community news business
By Amy Gahran Next week the Knight Digital Media Center at USC is partnering with the City University of New York to offer a two-day workshop on mobile strategies and opportunities for ethnic and...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- At Content Creators, journalists practice their craft...
By Julia Scott Tim Collie stumbled upon a universal truth while building his news startup, Content Creators. “Most people don’t like their website.” The design is bad, or they don’t know how to upload...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- 10-step mobile strategy for community publishers
By Amy Gahran Last weekend KDMC@USC held an invitation-only workshop on mobile strategy for community and ethnic media at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. The attendees...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Engaging communities by putting context up front
By Amy Gahran Journalism isn’t really about articles; it’s about empowering people by informing and engaging them. The article (or its audio or video equivalent) is a powerful format—but it’s mostly a...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Text alerts for community media: Tips for getting started
Text message alerts are a potentially powerful, effective way to keep your community engaged with your news and information wherever they are—and regardless of what kind of phone they have or whether...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Text alerts for community media: Tips for getting started
Text message alerts are a potentially powerful, effective way to keep your community engaged with your news and information wherever they are—and regardless of what kind of phone they have or whether...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Time for a better breed of local/mobile ad network for...
By Amy Gahran Theoretically, community publishers and local advertisers have much to gain from the rise of mobile advertising. But so far there’s a huge practical obstacle: the way the mobile ad market...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Non-traditional providers bring quality and dimension...
As more and more non-traditional actors take the stage in providing news and information in local communities, it’s valuable to get past the either-or journalist-vs-citj argument and look at who...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Colorado wildfire app can enhance coverage of any...
By Amy Gahran This week—when a major wildfire broke out near Colorado Springs, Colorado—two young programmers there quickly built an app to help people follow social media posts about the fire. They...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Baltimore Fishbowl: Newspaper, not
By Julia Scott Tearing away the boundaries of her newspaper mentality - all that’s fit to print - enables Susan Dunn to create engaging content that mattered to readers on Baltimore Fishbowl. Tidbits...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- How RJI’s mobile news research could expand to benefit...
By Amy Gahran This summer, Roger Fidler of the University of Missouri’s Reynolds Journalism Institute has been releasing the results of his detailed research into how people are using mobile devices to...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Lobbying for online-only legal notices: How community...
By Amy Gahran In the recently concluded session of the NY State Assembly, two bills that would have allowed online-only publication of legal notices failed to pass—but that won’t stop Howard Owens,...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- The “Evening Edition” approach to community news curation
By Amy Gahran Last week some web designers and an editor joined forces to revive the “evening edition” approach to news—long a staple of the newspaper business, which catered to news consumers’...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Journalism training and the digital revolution
What a difference a decade makes. A new survey of journalists trained in Knight Foundation-funded programs makes it abundantly clear that the digital tsunami that upended the news industry is remaking...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Ad rates, events, and crowdfunding: Community news...
By Amy Gahran Community news is a challenging business; which is why making money is a key theme at next month’s Block by Block Community New Summit. And there’s growing room for optimism: as Groupon’s...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- This Is True: Profiting from niche news
By Amy Gahran If you regularly publish content on a theme, rather than just about a place, you might add some niche news revenue streams to your news business model. Independent publisher Randy...
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News Leadership 3.0 -- Curating Twitter? Watch out, the rules are changing
By Amy Gahran News outlets of all kinds increasingly have been aggregating or curating Twitter content to augment news coverage and liveblogs—but Twitter is changing the rules. If you plan to keep...
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