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Archives: June 2019

Ken DoctorJune 28, 2019

Newsonomics: The New York Times puts personalization front and center — just For You

The Times knows its editors’ judgment of what’s important is one of its critical selling points. But in order to surface more than a sliver of its journalism each day, it’s now willing to respond to readers’ interests in a much bigger way.

Joshua BentonJune 28, 2019

When a local team wins a national championship, your daily newspaper will tell you all about it! (Um, 36 hours later)

Cost-cutting by newspaper chains has moved up print deadlines that even the biggest stories can’t make the paper if they happen after 6 p.m. That’s what happened in Nashville this week when Vanderbilt won the College World Series.

Laura Hazard OwenJune 28, 2019

Yes, it’s worth arguing with science deniers — and here are some techniques you can use

Plus: A fake news game that seems to inoculate players against fake news.

Subhayan Mukerjee and Sílvia Majó-VázquezJune 28, 2019

During the Indian election, news audiences consumed a wide and diverse range of sources

“Given the dearth of empirical studies about news audience behavior in the world’s largest democracy, our study provides a benchmark for future comparative research on news consumption across platforms and across countries to build on.”

Christine SchmidtJune 27, 2019

The Associated Press and Google are building a tool for sharing more local news — more quickly

“We’re living in an age of journalism where people want to help each other and are prioritizing collaboration over competition. We want to seize on that in a way that ensures no matter who is in the newsroom there’s still a mechanism for them to use this.”

Christine SchmidtJune 27, 2019

Here’s The Correspondent’s budget for its English-language expansion

“This represents five full-time correspondents working in different parts of the world, as well as at least five freelancers each month.”

Anne Powell, John Wiley, and Peter GrayJune 27, 2019

Habit formation: How The Wall Street Journal turned user-level data into a strategy to keep subscribers coming back

The Journal went on a quest to identify the user actions — an app download, an article share, repeat reading of a particular reporter’s stories — that can turn a new subscriber into a loyal one. Then it turned that knowledge into churn-reducing action.

Laura Hazard OwenJune 26, 2019

TV is still the most common way for Americans to get local news, but fewer people are watching

Cable news is growing, local TV news is declining, and network news is roughly flat.

Laura Hazard OwenJune 26, 2019

SmartNews has shown it can drive traffic. Can it drive subscriptions too?

“If the publisher ecosystem is healthy, then SmartNews is healthy. That’s going to be an important thrust going forward.”

Laura Hazard OwenJune 25, 2019

“It’s just become daily news”: Six Florida newsrooms are teaming up to cover climate change

“It’s not a science story for us here in South Florida. It’s not some kind of theoretical exploration. It’s real. It’s what many in our community experience in their neighborhoods.”

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