By gutting local advertising overnight, COVID-19 has accelerated strategies — like cutting print days, corporate consolidation, or even closing down offices — that publishers had hoped could wait a while longer.
“Whenever you have an individual interaction, a lot of the bluster, a lot of
the generalizations, a lot of the group identifications fall away,” one participant in Pennsylvania said.
Plus: First Look Media’s launches a new Richard Simmons podcast, Stitcher goes premium, Spotify looks into original podcast content, and Radiolab goes remix.
The Bay Area public media giant has launched a series of programs to try to introduce innovation at all commitment levels — from an eight-week bootcamp to lunchtime talks.
“From a purely intellectual, journalistic standpoint, what I think is most fascinating about this is that everybody is more or less covering the same thing, but from their own unique media perspective.”
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Can Berkeleyside turn an engaged community into a profitable membership program?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 5 Nov. 2014. Web. 8 Aug. 2020.
APA
O'Donovan, C. (2014, Nov. 5). Can Berkeleyside turn an engaged community into a profitable membership program?. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved August 8, 2020, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/11/can-berkeleyside-turn-an-engaged-community-into-a-profitable-membership-program/
Chicago
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Can Berkeleyside turn an engaged community into a profitable membership program?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified November 5, 2014. Accessed August 8, 2020. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/11/can-berkeleyside-turn-an-engaged-community-into-a-profitable-membership-program/.
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