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Better News: How To Forge New Audiences Of Color

1June 15, 2020 by Michael O'Connell

The Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester New York was facing a big problem. Its primary audience was old, white and dwindling. The newspaper had to figure out how to reach a younger and more diverse audience — and fast.

C.J. Benjamin is the Emerging Audiences Editor at the Rochester (NY) Democrat-Chronicle. (Michael Jackson)

C.J. Benjamin, emerging audiences editor for the Democrat and Chronicle, discusses how the paper successfully developed a strategy to better engage a younger and more diverse audience. She wrote about the experience for American Press Institute‘s Better News Initiative. Read her full report here.

The Better News podcast is a partnership between It’s All Journalism and the American Press Institute to a) showcase innovative/experimental ideas that emerge from the Knight-Lenfest Newsroom Initiative and b) to share replicable strategies and  tactics that benefit the news industry as a whole.Sign up for the Better News newsletter to receive news about the latest resources, case studies and insights. For more news about the It’s All Journalism podcast and future episodes of Better News, sign up for the weekly IAJ newsletter.

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1 Comment (click here to leave a comment)

  1. Sabrina R.

    June 16, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    CJ, Awesome Report, I am looking forward to a positive relationship, going forward. I am very hopeful, from what I heard that this paper is a rising star!! Thank you for caring enough to make an effort to change!!

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