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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.
Even with a limited marketing budget, paid acquisition is a low-risk, reliable return investment for publishers and funders looking to more quickly earn audience growth and financial sustainability.
It’s time to move beyond collaboration, contribution, and participation if we are to truly redistribute power. Community contributor models were a good start, but now journalists need to undertake more power-sharing and equitable allocation of resources.
Journalism’s traditional financial models are dying. Could churches, environmental movements, and open source communities hold clues to its survival?
Members often contribute to organizations in ways that are not easily quantifiable, and most participatory contributions are often hard to distill into a single line item. Is it possible to measure the value of participation and, more importantly, is it something we should even be measuring in the first place?
If you don't have processes for ongoing, visible, and participatory ways to involve members from the start, you are setting the stage for their disappointment. News entrepreneurs from around the world share how they make space for their members to vote, test, and weigh in regularly.
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.
The Correspondent put forward a model for more inclusive journalism by putting people at the center and consistently communicating. Read how the project’s success in crowdfunding $2.6MM reflects three years of diligent planning and purposefulness. It also reflects cohesive design elements; Dutch “proof”; and a clear value proposition.
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.
Membership in news is experiencing unprecedented popularity, yet our industry is still searching for the best way to measure the success of membership programs. What we do know is that members’ loyalty is critical to long-term success. We surveyed available benchmarks for membership and looked at best practices for measuring loyalty metrics in real time, in news and beyond.
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.
Even with a limited marketing budget, paid acquisition is a low-risk, reliable return investment for publishers and funders looking to more quickly earn audience growth and financial sustainability.
It’s time to move beyond collaboration, contribution, and participation if we are to truly redistribute power. Community contributor models were a good start, but now journalists need to undertake more power-sharing and equitable allocation of resources.
Journalism’s traditional financial models are dying. Could churches, environmental movements, and open source communities hold clues to its survival?
Members often contribute to organizations in ways that are not easily quantifiable, and most participatory contributions are often hard to distill into a single line item. Is it possible to measure the value of participation and, more importantly, is it something we should even be measuring in the first place?
If you don't have processes for ongoing, visible, and participatory ways to involve members from the start, you are setting the stage for their disappointment. News entrepreneurs from around the world share how they make space for their members to vote, test, and weigh in regularly.
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.
The Correspondent put forward a model for more inclusive journalism by putting people at the center and consistently communicating. Read how the project’s success in crowdfunding $2.6MM reflects three years of diligent planning and purposefulness. It also reflects cohesive design elements; Dutch “proof”; and a clear value proposition.
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.
Membership in news is experiencing unprecedented popularity, yet our industry is still searching for the best way to measure the success of membership programs. What we do know is that members’ loyalty is critical to long-term success. We surveyed available benchmarks for membership and looked at best practices for measuring loyalty metrics in real time, in news and beyond.