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    Articles tagged Hearken (17)

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    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.
    Per Westergaard and Søren Schultz JørgensenJuly 11, 2018
    54 newsrooms, 9 countries, and 9 core ideas: Here’s what two researchers found in a yearlong quest for journalism innovation
    “Our angle on the current state of journalism is this: The crisis of journalism and legacy news media is structural, and not just a matter of technological challenges or broken business models.”
    Laura Hazard OwenApril 30, 2018
    Is audience engagement a mushy construct based on anecdata — or something audiences actually want?
    “You know what? There doesn’t need to be data. We all know this to be true.”
    Ashley RendersApril 4, 2018
    What a failed media startup can teach us about involving readers in reporting
    The Canadian startup OpenFile was a bet on collaboration between journalists and their audience: “We learned that we shouldn’t dismiss [a story] just because it’s not articulated in a way that we would as journalists.”
    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
    Christine SchmidtDecember 4, 2017
    AL.com’s new Facebook brand, Reckon, aims to build an identity that breaks out of newspaper voice
    “Can we, as an established news company, create something that feels like a news startup focused around investigative and enterprise news, done for a social audience?”
    Stav DimitropoulosAugust 28, 2017
    Want more audience engagement in video form? This startup is betting there’s a business in there
    “We want to help newsrooms pull content in, which is exactly the opposite of what newsrooms have been doing: pushing content out.”
    Ricardo BiltonApril 24, 2017
    With Open Notebook, Hearken wants to help news orgs do more of their reporting in public
    “I don’t think earning trust is something you do once and just bank on for a long time.”
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