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If your newsroom still lives and dies by Chartbeat — if pageviews are all that matters to management — it’s missing out on some critical intel. The stories that get visits might be the ones you should be doing fewer of if your goal is chasing subscriptions.
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The roles fall into one of four categories:
- Audience strategy
- AI innovation
- Editorial-led product and design
- Newsroom engineering
A New Jersey congressman was suddenly missing. So The New York Times looked. And looked.
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Google is rolling out a new AI search performance dashboard for website owners: blog.google/products-and...
An analysis of billions of visits to a metro newspaper's website finds that entertainment and sports stories might generate lots of pageviews, but it's topics like government, transportation, and…
The Star Tribune has 495 employees, including a newsroom of 200 journalists. The cuts will affect every department and the newsroom will be reduced to 175 people, the Star Tribune said.
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“Folks we’ve heard from are enthusiastic, and so many have said, ‘I’m going to continue my ‘subscription.’ I want to support this.'”
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“If you plan as if Google is going to zero and it doesn’t, anything above zero is upside. If you plan for Google to be stable and it declines, then everything is catastrophic.”
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How a veteran video games journalist went solo and built a sustainable business
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