Utilized by 97% of news sites, Google Analytics is the most popular tool to track analytics. Used alone, however, it doesn’t show how readers engage with a website. Newsrooms can improve their understanding of readers' experiences when they combine...
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted many community media, which often have poor internet connection. Some even had to close. But Indigenous and rural communities sought solutions to strengthen connections, solidarity, and sharing of tools and information. Colmena (“Beehive”), a digital...
It’s been a busy year. The Poynter newsroom covers moments in news, current events that local newsrooms can look to for story ideas, ethics, media literacy and the business behind the news industry. We’ve had a lot to cover.In lieu...
Over the course of the pandemic, my company collaborated with TED to produce two seasons of the podcast Far Flung with Saleem Reshamwala. Each of the 20 episodes in the series visits a different city to find transferable ideas...
It’s transformation season, and if you think this was a different and busy year for news media, it was. There was a lot of resetting, some small wins and some significant losses, but if I had to bet, it’s...
When Bari Weiss launched Common Sense on Substack, she set out to create a media institution that is much bigger than herself. In an interview with Brian Stelter, she declared her intent to build “a newspaper for the 21st...
The Guardian has ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but what about our wider impact on nature? This is a question we are beginning to ask ourselves to help understand how our activities can affect the biodiversity crisis,...
The Arena Group, a firm that owns more than 240 brands, will acquire the digital assets of Men’s Journal, Men’s Fitness, Surfer, Powder, Bike, SKATEboarding, Snowboarder and NewSchoolers from accelerate360 in a $28.5 million deal, the firm announced on...
“First and foremost, we invest heavily in products that reinforce our brand and drive engagement,” Beizer said.For example, Bloomberg has put a lot of work into their Markets experience, “not just on our Markets pages, but across our ecosystem...
It turns out that trying to hold federal, state, and local elections, a local referendum, and a marathon all on the same day can be a disaster — even in a country where voter turnout can top 77% of the...
