Many loyal readers crave a sense of community, but communities are complicated and take many different forms. In this report, four newsrooms share the diverse tactics, strategies and operational considerations that have helped them cultivate healthy member communities on their own terms.
Read moreWant to make your journalism more memberful? Find a range of proven practices, including revenue-generating routines
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We went around the world to identify memberful routines that incorporate community members’ knowledge and produce value for news organizations. Here are practical tips from 19 news sites that show how to involve your supporters in your own site’s work.
Read moreWhat media can learn from other member-driven movements
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Journalism’s traditional financial models are dying. Could churches, environmental movements, and open source communities hold clues to its survival?
Read more“This is the journalism” & other insights from networked reporting
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For those eager to shift the news paradigm, Join the Beat collaborations with community members show how networked reporting opens up a “really big group of sources,” as De Correspondent migration reporter Maite Vermeulen said. Read more about starting engagement well before publishing and promotion with audience-oriented discovery and research.
Read moreWhy your community members want to aid your reporting & 25 jobs you can ask them to do
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The people formerly known as the audience tell us they’re motivated to learn, contribute expertise, be heard, be granted transparency, express support for a cause, and meet people with shared values. You can learn from news organizations around the world about how they responsibly, enthusiastically allow community members past the gatekeeper and make coverage that saves and generates money.
Read moreBefore communities can invest in news, newsrooms must invest in communities (1/2)
Illustration by Lukas Kouwets, Momkai
The focus of newsroom business model innovation has largely shifted from advertisers to audience members. Heather Bryant looks at what it will take for newsrooms to create pathways to membership for low and no income audiences: people who have been historically excluded from mutually beneficial relationships with newsrooms.
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