When you think of audio news, one of three things probably comes to mind: radio, podcasts or headlines read via smart speaker. But some news outlets are trying something new — audio articles. Audio articles are recordings of single stories already published as written content. Instead of accessing them through a podcast app, the stories are often made available on the webpage right alongside the print stories.
Last month, Pew Research Center released updated information on the use of social media for finding and accessing news stories. More than two-thirds (68 percent) of Americans said they get their news from social media.
Think you know all there is to know about the news? You may be a news junkie, but how well do you know the history of the news? To celebrate National Newspaper Week, take our quiz to find out just how much you know about the history of news in America.
Long before we were talking about the “pivot to video,” Alabama Media Group was bringing sleek, stylized videos to their local audience.
South Carolina’s The Post and Courier recently joined the News Media Alliance. One of the oldest newspapers in the South, its age hasn’t kept it from being at the top of its game. The paper won its first Pulitzer Prize in 1925, for editorial writing, and more recently in 2015 for public service journalism when it published a series of articles about the toll domestic violence takes on women in South Carolina. Now, The Post and Courier has joined the Alliance for help navigating today’s economic and political landscape, and to keep its excellent journalism alive and flourishing.
News overload isn’t all bad; it has forced our industry to get creative. We have excellent new podcasts coming out regularly, young journalists who are taking risks to tell important stories, and more people are subscribing to news. And we’re all getting more creative in how we tell stories. One of the more entertaining additions to the news landscape recently has been Limericking, a Twitter account that shares important news through — you guessed it — limericks.
Subatomic Digital didn’t realize the revenue growth potential of their products for news publishers when they launched their business in the early 2000s. But today, they have several newspaper customers for whom they develop custom products.
In this new role, Coffey will be responsible for maintaining digital partnerships to identify business opportunities and eliminate barriers to a thriving and sustainable news industry.
Today, newspapers fought back against President Trump’s attacks on the media in the the best way they know how: they took to the presses. In a unified voice, they called for an end to these attacks and stressed the importance of quality journalism and a free press to hold our government officials accountable.
Our July New(s) Ideas winner, Twipe Mobile, has deployed exciting reader analytics technology to equip news publishers with unique insights to improve audience engagement, and thereby subscriber retention.
