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

WIJ Workshop reflections: Safety, inspiration and so much more

Words by Kasey Carlson, Photos by Kat Duncan  When I got an email a few months ago encouraging me to apply to the Women in Journalism Workshop, I thought a few things. One was that it could be a chance to network and learn some new skills — what graduating senior wouldn’t want to take advantage … Continued

AMP Stories: Tips and Tools

This month for Innovation in Focus we explored building AMP stories. As we learned in our Q&A with Evan Wagstaff at the San Franciso Chronicle, diving into this new tool can require some coding knowledge and time. We wanted to utilize the AMP Stories platform but had minimal coding skills, so we decided to try the … Continued

AMP Stories: A visual experience

Our last segment for Innovation in Focus was the AMP story we built on paragliding in Columbia. If you are familiar with AMP technology, you may know AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages, a Google project designed as an open standard for publishers to have pages load quickly on mobile devices. AMP stories is a … Continued