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With a light jab at Facebook, Apple News launches a 2018 midterm elections section that’ll “steer clear of rumor and propaganda”

Shan WangJune 25, 2018

When it comes to launching serious, sustainable membership programs for journalism, ask for more, more often, and aim higher

“The best predictor of membership loyalty is whether an organization has been talking to their audiences already about their need to raise money. The other predictor is how many subscribers you have on your list, and how engaged those subscribers on your list are.”

Marlee BaldridgeJune 25, 2018

With new beats and sprints, The Sacramento Bee aims to hit 60,000 digital subs

“We’re looking hard at what types of stories drive digital-only subscriptions. We know the last story someone read before they hit the meter, we know what the first story is that they visited after they hit the meter, and so what do we do with that information?”

H.G. WatsonJune 22, 2018

In Winnipeg, micropayments aren’t generating big money, but they’re serving as a top-of-the-funnel strategy

Three years in, the Winnipeg Free Press’ attempt to get readers to pay by the article is still producing less than $100,000 a year — but it also produces data that allows for more targeted upsell efforts.

Laura Hazard OwenJune 22, 2018

Democrats see most news outlets as unbiased. Republicans think they’re almost all biased.

Plus: Facebook expands its fact-checking program; for one thing, it now covers photos and video.

News is sometimes a casualty when Facebook and Twitter try to clean up their platforms

Marlee BaldridgeJune 21, 2018

The Appeal focuses on an often undercovered aspect of criminal justice: local prosecutors

The site, recently rebranded from In Justice Today, wants to shine a light on a more mysterious part of the legal system by focusing on local prosecutors and criminal justice policy.

Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia and Filippo MenczerJune 20, 2018

These are the three types of bias that explain all the fake news, pseudoscience, and other junk in your News Feed

Indiana University researchers “have found that steep competition for users’ limited attention means that some ideas go viral despite their low quality — even when people prefer to share high-quality content.”

Here are a few ideas for how funders and publishers can work together

Ken DoctorJune 20, 2018

Newsonomics: GateHouse’s Mike Reed talks about rolling up America’s news industry

“Content is our number-one priority,” Reed said. But he’s unwilling to publicly commit to any new level of funding or staffing to meet that goal.

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