In the BBC’s final two experimental rounds, the R&D team focused on 1) tweaking the stories based on each reader’s information needs and 2) breaking down the news into more digestible bits.
“The reality is we do not have folks who are embedded in the communities they serve who actually are responsible for telling these stories.” ABC is making local hires as one step to try to fix that.
To save money on newsprint and late press runs, Gannett told its newspapers not to bother printing results and to direct the curious online. Here’s how that played out.
“We’re a subscription business, so we’ve been looking a lot at binge-watching and creating a body of work that, when people find one, they will spend time with multiple episodes.”
George, Tara. "How the BBC built one of the world’s largest collaborative journalism efforts focused entirely on local news." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 31 Oct. 2018. Web. 20 Feb. 2019.
APA
George, T. (2018, Oct. 31). How the BBC built one of the world’s largest collaborative journalism efforts focused entirely on local news. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved February 20, 2019, from http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/10/how-the-bbc-built-one-of-the-worlds-largest-collaborative-journalism-efforts-focused-entirely-on-local-news/
Chicago
George, Tara. "How the BBC built one of the world’s largest collaborative journalism efforts focused entirely on local news." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified October 31, 2018. Accessed February 20, 2019. http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/10/how-the-bbc-built-one-of-the-worlds-largest-collaborative-journalism-efforts-focused-entirely-on-local-news/.
Wikipedia
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