Better News

2019-2024

Better News: Post and Courier philanthropic effort nets $1 million

Executive Editor Autumn Phillips recently wrote a report for API's Better News initiative about The Post and Courier's stellar fundaising effort. She shares the details with host Michael O'Connell on the...

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Better News: Tennessean engages Black audiences with new initiative

In the latest Better News podcast, opinion columnist LeBron Hill talks to host Michael O'Connell about the report he wrote for the American Press Institute's Better News Initiative about how...

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Better News: LA Times Creates Compelling Virtual Events During Pandemic

Samantha Melbourneweaver and Donna Wares share how The Los Angeles Times built a compelling series of virtual events during the pandemic.

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Better News: Newsroom partnership benefits Charlotte’s Latino community

Ju-don Marshall of WFAE and Hilda Gurdian of La Noticia discuss how a partnership helped them better engage the Latino community in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Better News: Killing Zombies On Your Subscription List

John Adams and Alia Beard Rau share the Arizona Republic's strategy for rooting out digital subscribers who aren't actively engaged.

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Better News: Las Vegas Review-Journal bets big on Mobbed Up podcast

Jim Prather, the Review-Journal's executive director of programming, discusses the success of the Mobbed Up podcast.

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Better News: Nonprofit newsrooms turn rivalry into revenue stream

The newsrooms of The Chronicle at Duke University and The Daily Tar Heel teamed up to create the Rivalry Challenge around the schools' annual basketball game.

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Better News: COVID-19 timeline helps newsroom attract new subscribers

On this episode of Better News, Randi Stevenson shares how a COVID-19 timeline helped boost subscriptions at the San Antonio News-Express.

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Better News: Measure the impact of local journalism on your community

Anjanette Delgado discusses how the Detroit Free Press uses a community impact report to measure its effect on the community.

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Better News: Use Slack to host cultural conversations in your newsroom

Corinne Chin tells Better News how The Seattle Times uses Slack to facilitate cultural conversations in its newsroom.

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Top 10 podcast episodes of 2020

It's All Journalism looks back to see what topics and guests proved to be the most interesting to our listeners in 2020.

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Better News: How to use events to grow a diverse audience

Cierra Hinton talks about how Scalawag, a nonprofit media organization, is using events to diversify its audience and grow membership.

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