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Sophie CulpepperOctober 3, 2023

Aiming for 500,000 subscribers by 2026, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution takes a big swing on growth

“We want to cloak ourselves in all things Atlanta. And frankly, in recent years, we haven’t necessarily done that.”

Joshua BentonDecember 2, 2019

An old FCC rule is being used to justify shrinking the Dayton “Daily” News to three days a week

Want to get around a regulation that limits who can own a daily newspaper? Just make it a less-than-daily newspaper.

Laura Hazard OwenDecember 5, 2018

Get rid of the content no one reads. Offer surprises and “candy.” And other tricks for retaining subscribers.

“I am not saying we shouldn’t do vegetables. But for the financial health of our organizations, the rewards are candy. If we’re not taking the vegetables and dipping them in caramel, we’re making some hard choices.”

Nicholas QuahApril 17, 2018

Phew, we’ve apparently solved 97% of the podcast measurement problem — everybody relax

Plus: The impact of bad true crime podcasts, programmatic advertising is coming for your show, and the first children’s podcast festival.

Facebook’s support for local news subscriptions is one move in the larger dance between publishers and platforms

Shan WangJanuary 27, 2016

All the news that’s fit to podcast: Newspapers try out audio

An unsolved murder, lives of the presidents, the Iowa Caucuses, and more — all delivered in podcast format by reporters who are learning for the first time how to write to be heard, not to be read.

Shan WangJuly 27, 2015

Can Campbell Brown’s education news site walk the advocacy–journalism tightrope?

The new venture, cofounded by the former CNN and NBC News anchor, is not ashamed about having an agenda. One key part of its toolkit: using video to create a “Waiting for Superman”-like impact on the discussion around education.

Caroline O'DonovanJanuary 13, 2014

Start small, plan big: How two nonprofit education sites came together to build a network

Say hello to Chalkbeat, a model for how local sites might gain scale and infrastructure through a networked vision of journalism.

Jeffrey HermesMay 2, 2013

When the media — traditional or new — gets a suspect wrong, what are the legal ramifications?

From Lockerbie to Richard Jewell to anthrax: The Boston Marathon bombings were far from the first incident to spark inaccurate reporting about an alleged suspect. Here’s what the case law tells us about liability.

The forgotten history of Access Atlanta, one of the early web’s most innovative newspapers

For a brief shining moment in the early 1990s, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution was one of the top innovators in digital news. But it didn’t last long. Alex Remington