By applying a design thinking focus to storytelling, audience engagement and participatory projects, science journalists and newsroom leaders can demonstrate different ways of telling climate change stories and make the … Learn about this subject.
Locally Sourced Reporting: Are Americans Missing Out?
Presenting findings from a new and unusually large Pew Research Center survey of 35,000 Americans, local news leader panellists will join a lead author of the study to discuss how … Learn about this subject.
How to Approach Difficult Conversations: A Guide to Improve Your Newsroom Culture, Your Coverage and Your Life
Difficult conversations are, by definition, challenging. This session will provide tactics to handle tough and tricky newsroom talks that will help turn uncomfortable conflicts into productive resolutions, including role-playing and … Learn about this subject.
Texting To Your Audience
The social channel that nobody’s talking about, mass texting, is a valuable tool to build close audience relationships and even generate revenue by reaching new audiences — often ones that … Learn about this subject.
Motherhood: Living It in Newsrooms, Covering It in the World
Motherhood is too often dismissed as a fluffy topic for lifestyle pages, rather than one in dire need of serious reporting on its intersections with healthcare, economics, public policy, gender … Learn about this subject.
We Built a Product Team in One Year: Here’s Everything We Learned
Newsroom product teams harness audience insights and technology to develop business strategies that are nimble and sustainable. But that doesn’t mean media companies must become tech companies. In this session, … Learn about this subject.
2020 Campaign Coverage: Beyond the Horse Race
Offering tips, techniques and models to better inform citizens about what they need to know, this deeply-reported session on political journalism will provide insights into how “horse-race” reporting shortchanges voters … Learn about this subject.
Getting People to Pay for Local News Online
Going beyond page views and duration, analysts with Northwestern’s Medill School delved into reader and subscriber behavior data from 16 news markets large and small and will present research findings … Learn about this subject.
Investigating the Country of 2000 Graves: Public Records, Human Rights and Collaborative Journalism
It took 18 months and more than 200 public records requests for independent journalists to build the interactive database of mass graves in Mexico detailed in “The Country of 2000 … Learn about this subject.
Product Thinking for News Leaders
Learn how to turn your journalistic curiosity and investigative skills inward to find bold solutions for your newsroom with this facilitated discussion about the rise of bridge roles in the … Learn about this subject.