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Articles tagged GroundSource (8)

Hanaa' TameezJanuary 11, 2023

Sahan Journal is using voice-note newsletters to reach Somalis in Minnesota

“We wanted the questions and feedback and the insights of Somalis to be at the center.”

Christine SchmidtOctober 3, 2019

The business case for listening to your audience is still murky (but early results are promising)

“Newsrooms generally reported increased levels of engagement and higher-quality conversations with audiences. Nearly all of the grant reports we reviewed reported increased engagement.” That (still) doesn’t yet translate into money.

Christine SchmidtJuly 12, 2018

What kind of information — not just content — do you need as a news consumer?

Pulse, a project launched by Sarah Alvarez and Andrew Haeg, aims to help news organizations text their communities to find out.

Christine SchmidtMarch 1, 2018

By mass-texting local residents, Outlier Media connects low-income news consumers to useful, personalized data

“I was not satisfied with covering low-income communities for a higher-income audience. I wanted to cover issues for and with low-income news consumers.”

GroundSource switched from an email newsletter to a SMS newsletter and actually got responses

Ricardo BiltonJanuary 31, 2018

Opinary is building new tools to help news orgs use polls to inform their coverage

Can a widget’s worth of reader engagement lead to useful data — and maybe even money? “The whole idea is to give readers and communities a voice within journalism.”

A new $650K grant will help pay for newsrooms to adopt tools like Hearken and GroundSource

Joseph LichtermanMarch 23, 2016

GroundSource is trying to help news sites build community through text-message conversations

“I can’t imagine many stronger indications of one’s desire to engage with a news organization than adding it as a contact in their address book.”