#40 - Stories with Impact
At its core, journalism is intended to have an effect. Reading the news helps your readers to manage the ever-growing complexity of the world. Information enables people to be civically engaged and hold those in power accountable. But how do you measure impact? It’s a complex topic but a new practical field guide by the Solutions Journalism Network is a great entry point to start the conversation. It outlines how you can formulate impact hypotheses and includes recommendations for measuring the potential impact of your journalism.
This and more in this week’s Wayfinder!
IN FOCUS
Schibsted's IN/LAB hired ten young adults to reimagine what news journalism is and could be. The result are six speculative news experiences ideated by and for young people who feel like the news isn't catering to them.?
And a new report from WAN-IFRA brings together best practices from European news publishers that have built editorial products to serve the needs of specific target audiences.?
NEWSROOM
The comments readers post on digital publications are often harsh and uncivic. But a real-names policy seems to be very effective to tame the online trolls. The Times saw a 40% decrease in toxic comments and trolling after they enforced the use of real names in the comment section.
Beyond Print , a program led by The Lenfest Institute and American Press Institute brings together tips and guides for newspapers looking to reduce print frequency and make the shift to digital.
But print is far from dead. Programmatic printing and clever distribution systems are the keywords in taking newspapers to the next level according to Dr. Klemens Berktold, the managing director at Funke Mediengruppe Print Division.
LOCAL
Local journalism should be about giving people information they need to make the places they live better not about maintaining legacy operations. A new report lays out a roadmap for local journalism in the US .
And in the UK, another report finds that existing support for local journalism tends to go to the largest, multi-title news publishers and suggests extra measure to stop the decline of local news landscape.
QUICK INDUSTRY HITS
How Gen Z Start-up Ac2ality became one of the biggest European news publisher on TikTok.
Semaphor takes a look at another hot social first newcomer: The News Movement .
How the customer centre at Bonnier became a source of insights.
Twipe dives into 3 different newsletter formats you need to know about for your 2023 newsletter strategy.
Greg Piechota explores which paywall models are most popular and which are most effective .
领英推荐
SHORT TECH NEWS
AI
Show me your headline and I’ll tell you who you are! That’s exactly what Upgrade Media did in a new study. They trained an AI to recognize the titles of US/UK media and French media and made a map that shows which brands make ‘distinctive titles’ and which of them are not.
The internet risks to be flooded with cheap, machine-synthesized content. But is that the end-game? Nathan Baschez looks beyond the first wave of generative AI.
Want to explore AI in your newsroom? Then here are two good first steps:
REPORTS
Meltwater and We Are Social have released Digital 2023, their latest annual report on social media and digital trends worldwide . Main take-away: daily internet use is slightly reduced but social platforms has increased to more than 2? hours per day/user — 40 minutes more than time spent watching broadcast and cable TV.
+ A new report examines the changing ways consumers engage with media and entertainment
+ Two new reports present the European SVOD landscape. (Audiovisual Media Service in Europe & Top Players report ).
EVERYTHING ELSE
Reliable distribution is the glue that makes any media work well. But according to Troy Young traditional media’s hard-wired distribution advantage has shifted to a hyper competitive soft-distribution challenge. A gem full of strategic insights.
And the last thing for this week: The team at DW had made an interactive guide to learn workflows and tools to verify digital media.
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Ezra.
Engagement director at Solutions Journalism Network and freelance journalist
1 年Thank you from all of us at Solutions Journalism Network! We appreciate this so much.