Procedures
Why you should care about your news site’s SEO
Common challenges, core basics and practical first steps.
Making sense of your core web vitals
Learn how the loading speed, accessibility and other performance metrics of your news site stacks up.
How Trusting News organizes their large library of internal resources
Keeping information easily accessible is an essential lesson for newsrooms.
Doesn’t matter the worksheet, goal planning is the same
Make sure your team’s goals roll up, down.
Journalists: If you’ve worked with others to change your newsroom, you’re probably an organizer
Three lessons I’ve learned about journalism, organizing, and how closely intertwined they are.
Redesign your live meeting agenda doc with these templates
How to prioritize people who are participating on their own time.
A guide to social branding on any newsroom budget
With tools like Canva, Projector, and Adobe Spark, newsrooms of any size can create brand guidelines.
How to design your inclusive source diversity audit
Five months ago, Chalkbeat and the Reynolds Journalism Institute launched a project that will make it easier for newsrooms to track the diversity of their sources.
How to successfully hand-off projects and initiatives
Abigail Shaw put together multiple toolkits to help the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service continue to implement the initiatives and social media campaigns she has been planning all summer.
Creating advertising graphics for your newsroom’s Instagram
Creating graphics for Instagram may seem easy, but strategy and technique are required when generating graphics for your organization to engage your audience.