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Better News

2019-2024

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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Better News: How To Forge New Audiences Of Color

C.J. Benjamin of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle discusses how to develop a strategy to better engage a younger and more diverse audience.

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Better News: Is it time to rethink your arts coverage?

KCUR.org, the website for Kansas City’s public media station, made a concerted effort from 2014-18 to expand its arts coverage. It even had two-full-time reporters on the arts beat....

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Better News: Iconic southern newspaper undergoes digital-first transformation

The News Reporter of Whiteville, North Carolina is one of those iconic southern newspapers. Founded in 1896, the paper has a long history of serving rural Columbus County, including...

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Better News: Post & Courier uncovers new revenue with mini-publisher model

The Post & Courier of Charleston, South Carolina was in dire straights. Its traditional revenue streams — print advertising and circulation — were in decline and the newspaper needed...

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