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Articles tagged USA Today Network (10)

Laura Hazard OwenDecember 5, 2018

Get rid of the content no one reads. Offer surprises and “candy.” And other tricks for retaining subscribers.

“I am not saying we shouldn’t do vegetables. But for the financial health of our organizations, the rewards are candy. If we’re not taking the vegetables and dipping them in caramel, we’re making some hard choices.”

Nicholas QuahFebruary 13, 2018

Today, Explained, explained: Vox enters the daily news podcast race with a comma-happy, personality-driven show

Plus: HBO buys in, ESPN brags condescendingly, big networks scale back, and Call Your Girlfriend plots its future. Also, gifs.

Nicholas QuahFebruary 6, 2018

Can public radio powerhouse WNYC navigate a crisis of its own making?

Plus: RadioPublic stands up for the little guys, everybody’s going Hollywood, and Gannett wants to build “The Wire” (but non-fiction).

Nicholas QuahOctober 24, 2017

Can sports turn the local podcast business into a green monster?

A partnership of Boston media giants is going to try. Plus: The mysteries of messed-up analytics and The New York Times’ expanding podcast strategy.

Ricardo BiltonJuly 14, 2017

With help from local papers, USA Today is boosting the ambition and publishing speed of its VR projects

“We have to remember that not only we as content creators are new to VR, but so is our audience. For a lot of people, it’s still very experiential.”

Joseph LichtermanNovember 28, 2016

ProPublica’s collaborative reporting experiment takes on widespread voter fraud (and finds no evidence of it)

More than 450 reporters from 250 outlets across the country have published over 300 stories as part of the Electionland project.

Joseph LichtermanNovember 7, 2016

More than a thousand reporters and students are collectively covering voting problems on Election Day

Through the collaborative reporting project Electionland, outlets from across the country are coming together to report on issues like voter ID laws and long wait times.

Joseph LichtermanAugust 24, 2016

Business realities are impacting all college newspapers. But what happens when they’re for-profit?

Gannett owns two college newspapers in Florida — it’s closed one and cutting costs at the other.

Shan WangJuly 19, 2016

As USA Today network builds its investigative ambitions, it looks to keep things in the Gannett family

Its chief content officer: “My message has been, any journalist at any of our papers can come up with a great idea, something that we think is scalable, we will help them scale it.”

Report: 2016 will be critical for growth of VR in journalism