Design is much more than type selection, grids and color palettes. We are a multi-faceted and ever-evolving industry. This session is a raw and real look at how one Texan … Learn about this subject.
Beyond Facebook: How to Survive and Thrive After Newsfeed Changes
When you rely on Google and Facebook for traffic, you are at serious risk when the algorithm changes, especially when it suddenly moves to deprioritize news. Newsrooms can hedge their … Learn about this subject.
Machine Learning and You: Boost Audience Engagement, Change Readers’ Habits
The pervasiveness of news has led to a publication agnosticism that seriously threatens reader loyalty and audience engagement. Machine learning, through augmented content and interactive user experiences, can help reverse … Learn about this subject.
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Events are powerful engagement tools, and for some organizations, essential revenue streams — but we’ve been operating without good information on events for years. Emerging research points the way forward, … Learn about this subject.
Closed Networks are Revolutionary for Oppressed People and Reporters Covering Them
Where social media is banned or monitored, closed networks and encrypted messengers like Telegram and WhatsApp allow activists and the journalists who cover them an avenue for communicating and disseminating … Learn about this subject.
How to Please Every Platform and Make Video Distribution Work
Balancing servicing your own platform against the massive global audiences promised by Facebook Watch, Snapchat, Apple News, YouTube, Twitter, et. al., is the fundamental challenge of video distribution, with views, … Learn about this subject.
Multilingual Journalism With a Small Staff and Almost No Money
Simultaneously speaking to an audience engagement strategy and recognizing an emerging demographic reality, managing multilingual content is becoming an essential journalistic project. Workflows require experimentation, investment and, ultimately, mutual intelligibility. … Learn about this subject.
Making the (Internal) Case for New Products and Experiments
You’ve been contemplating that secret idea — a good one that will change everything. But will anyone at your organization take you seriously? Making a successful pitch to internal stakeholders … Learn about this subject.
Verificado 2018: Global Lessons Learned from Debunking Fake News in Mexican Elections
More than 60 media partners participated in #Verificado2018, a collaborative, multimedia initiative to confront and push back against false claims during Mexico’s July federal elections, an effort that builds on … Learn about this subject.
Internetting While Brown/Black AND a Woman: A Collective Guide
In order for women to contribute diverse perspectives and influence news coverage, they need to be free of the threats and harassment that prevent them from doing their jobs. Confronting … Learn about this subject.