audience engagement
Social & Digital lunchbreak: the engaging, managing & uplifting edition
Three helpful links (and a memorialisation of a failure) to help you find positivity in dark days…
lockdown
Lockdown journalism digest: reporting, engaging and planning for the future
The Covid-19 lockdown is changing journalism. Here's a few signposts on that road.
newsletters
Engaged Reading Digest: the subscriptions edition
Five reads on subscriptions and membership models, to give you some hope about the future of journalism.
audience engagement
Engaged Reading Digest: constructive journalism, news moments, TikTok and trolls
Moving on from just reporting the problems, exposing new times for engaging with readers and more, in this selection of fine, artisanal links.
engaged reading digest
Engaged Reading Digest: listening, killing comments and getting visual
Another round-up of interesting reading about journalism and audience engagement
podcasting
News podcasts: profitable and engaging — but have we got the format right?
New research from the Reuters Institute suggests that publishers are waking up to the opportunity for greater audience engagement through podcasting - but are they taking the right approach?
community management
Engaged journalism, membership models and communities under attack: important new research from the Reuters Institute
By deeply researching the audience engagement of three news outlets under sustained assault by hostile organisations, Dr Julie Posetti and team have come up with some vital work
engaged reading digest
Engaged reading digest: members-only apps, and the funnel is back
The Guardian launches a member-only app, people are discovering funnels a decade late, and HuffPo is on the auction block.
quartz
Newsletters: how to connect communities
Newsletters are an intensely personal medium. Here’s how to do them right - and use them to make an impact.
SEO
SEO: big changes are coming to nofollow - here's what you need to know
Google is making the first big change to "nofollow" in a decade and a half. Here's what you should know.
SEO
New Google update aims to prioritise original reporting over rapid writethroughs
Big news from Google: it's tweaked its algorithms to prioritise original reporting - and to display it for longer.
media literacy
Media Literacy will not create trust in journalism
There's an assumption that just training people to be critical of media will help deal with misinformation. That's wrong.