Best practices
Create a newsletter worth reading: Tips from the experts
Tatyana Monnay is the RJI Student Innovation Fellow at the Associated Press. This summer our student fellows will be sharing dispatches from their fellowships in newsrooms across the country for Innovation in Focus. Newsletters can be a powerful product to add to your newsroom to inform your community and engage them in topics they care … Continued
5 ways that local newsrooms can utilize TikTok
On a platform that consists primarily of dance and comedy videos, is there space for news?
Visualizing COVID-19 data: Learning Observable and Vega
Watch this workshop for journalists to learn how to visualize COVID-19 data with these two web tools
Safety, prep and knowing your rights
Hostile Environment Awareness trainers, journalists and NPPA general counsel answer questions about safety, prep and legal rights on volatile assignments
Voice delivered news: Remy Becher at the Economist
Q&A on voice activated news with Remy Becher, Vice President for Product at the Economist
World of trade-offs: What journalists think of rating scales in fact-checking
Rating systems are widely accepted among and used by most fact-checkers. But the idea received backlash over the years, with critics alleging that the system reflects fact-checkers’ biases and potentially oversimplifies complex issues.
Video as revenue: Start with listening
This summer for Innovation in Focus, we are speaking with news organizations that are exploring new, emerging or unique revenue models. Alabama Media Group launched Red Clay Media in 2017 as a video driven revenue stream. It began with videos created in the newsroom that inspired engagement from their readers. Today it is a thriving … Continued
Gotta catch ’em all: Archiving digital content such as social media should include linked objects
In the digital media world, there’s no guarantee that material that appears one minute will be there the next. Take, for example, Twitter posts of Anthony Scaramucci, who began deleting old tweets after being named White House communications director. Many — but not all — of the former presidential aide’s postings had already been identified … Continued
Relaunching a newsletter: Failures, successes and what we learned
Sixth in a series to help newsrooms curate effective newsletters
True or false: PolitiFact, pols and pundits
Who in the news is lying? Who’s telling the truth? To find out I “scored” each person and group checked by PolitiFact.