Michael Blanding, writing at Nieman Reports, takes a look at some of the most compelling and creative ways news organizations cover climate change.
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What Does Membership Mean for BuzzFeed News — at a Company That’s Already Raised Nearly $500 Million in Venture Capital?
It was a year ago that Jonah Peretti re-gridded BuzzFeed’s strategy, with BuzzFeed News set aside in its own column that would later become its own distinct website.
It would never go behind a paywall, unlike other news organizations “because your ability to access news is important every day”…
Journalism Has a Focus Problem: How to Combat Shiny Things Syndrome
Julie Posetti, writing for Nieman Journalism Lab, calls for newsroom to slow down, take a more measured, strategic approach to change.
There Isn’t One Best Way to Map Local News Ecosystems. But Can We Do it Better?
It’s a series of questions we get often at the Center for Cooperative Media: How many news organizations operate in New Jersey? How many are print versus radio versus television? How many people do they employ? So what parts of the state have no local news source? How can we help those places?
The problem is, we can’t answer these questions with complete accuracy. In fact, we don’t know anyone who can. Despite the volume of research currently under way about news ecosystems, there is no gold standard; many studies to date have critical flaws, such as focusing on only one type of media, using too few sources to feed underlying databases, or considering news only through a strict geographic lens.
Digital-Native Publishers Settle In to Face Legacy Constraints, with a Side of Reader Revenue
“It was around this time last year that things were starting to look a little dicey for the media industry’s once breathlessly-hyped digital unicorns,” Joe Pompeo wrote for Vanity Fair this week. BuzzFeed, Vice, Mashable, and Vox, “which once heralded the dawn of a new media age — replete with massive valuations, large fund-raising hauls, and millennial sex appeal — now appeared to exhibit some traits of the brands that they once attempted to disrupt.”