Product
Creating the Next Generation of Product Thinkers
- Marie Gilot
- Aron Pilhofer
- Hong Qu
- Angela Wong
Media companies — both startups and legacy organizations — are hiring people who can design, develop and manage news products, such as mobile apps, email newsletters, SMS...
Ensuring Accessibility For News
- Dean Betz
- Aditi Bhandari
How accessible is your website? Does your news app meet recommended contrast guidelines for visually impaired users? Can you navigate your page with only a keyboard? How does that ...
Fireside Chat with Medium CEO Ev Williams
- Ev Williams
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Moderated by Manoush Zomorodi
When Medium arrived on the web, it offered a number of intriguing features: a publishing platform that existed somewhere between a tweet and a blog post; a stab at fixing broken...
How Bots are Deepening Relationships with Readers
- Emily Clark
- Rebecca Harris
- Joseph Price
- Emily Withrow
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Moderated by Craig McCosker
These are the droids you’re looking for! Chatbots are proliferating at lightning speed, and proving a unique way to grow and engage an audience. Our experts will discuss their...
Thoughtful Testing: How to Ask the Right Questions in A/B Tests
- Sophie Ho
- Angela Wong
A/B tests, surveys and other testing tools are critical for getting user *experience* feedback, but thoughtful product development requires asking the right questions before you...
What Product and News Designers Can Learn From Each Other
- Jessica Gilbert
- Emily Chow
Both news designers and product designers are trying to reach audiences through good design, but they face different challenges and have unique insights into what works. News...
Audience Behavior and Discussion of News
- Sara Gorman
- Padraic Ryan
- Eugenia Siapera
Recent conversations about trust in news are often missing an important component: a fuller understanding of how audiences interact with and discuss news pieces. Our experts will...
Red Alert: Making Push Notifications Meaningful to the Audience
- Nic Newman
- Brianne O'Brien
- Madeline Welsh
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Moderated by Subhajit Banerjee
Newsrooms are getting creative in how they are tackling push notifications. From writing narrative alerts to improving when and how we send our updates, we can provide a better...
Designing Journalism for a Digital Conversation
- Monica Guzmán
- Terry Parris Jr.
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Moderated by Josh Stearns
From the rise of chat apps to the successful re-invigoration of newsletters with personality, it’s obvious audiences are hungry for new ways to connect with news and...