This week, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced the twenty-four recipients of its Sustainable Publishing Solutions Grant.
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Hub Report: Several sites are now using Newspack. How’s that going for them?
About a year ago, in June 2019, we published our first study of how newsrooms interact with WordPress, the open-source content management system (CMS) that’s widely used by small-to-medium sized publishers. The purpose of the study was to understand the typical newsroom workflow; the tools with which WordPress interacts; the user journey of both editorial […]
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Readers have given more than $3.8 million to support Hub newsrooms’ crisis reporting
Readers have given more than $3.8 million to support Hub newsrooms’ crisis reporting
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The Future Is Audience-First, and Other Takeaways from the GNI Audience Lab
The News Revenue Hub is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping digital news outlets develop sustainable business models. And when it comes to newsroom sustainability, cultivating audience and loyalty is paramount—as is cultivating a team of experts to do that important work. That’s why the Hub partnered with the Google News Initiative to create the […]
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Newsletters Are Crucial for Reader Loyalty. Here’s How to Make the Most of Them.
Email newsletters can be a powerful tool. Effective newsletters can help news organizations reach new audiences, deepen engagement, and build loyal relationships—all things that the Google News Initiative Audience Lab is focused on. The GNI Audience Lab, a partnership between the News Revenue Hub and the Google News Initiative, has wrapped up assessments for seven […]
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The Hub and 2019: A year of growth and audience focus
As we kick off 2020 and look back at last year, it’s starting to sink in: 2019 was a year of immense growth for the News Revenue Hub and our newsroom partners. “When you’re in the thick of things working with nearly 50 newsrooms, launching new services and participating in big sector-wide projects, it’s hard […]
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Here’s How the GNI Audience Lab Does Assessments
Last month, we announced the Google News Initiative Audience Lab, a pilot project at the News Revenue Hub dedicated to helping clients grow and enhance their audiences. In that intro post, we laid out the type of work the Lab is doing as it seeks to help publishers grow and enhance their audiences. Now we […]
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Introducing the Google News Initiative-News Revenue Hub Audience Lab
Here at the News Revenue Hub, we talk a lot about membership. And for good reason: Helping news organizations achieve sustainability by bolstering membership programs has been our core focus for three years. So far, that work has been successful, which gives us — and our clients — room to grow. That’s where the Google […]
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Hub Report: How audience impacts membership revenue
We recently completed our latest analysis of Hub client revenue patterns, and we’re pleased to share the findings. Our discoveries include significant revenue increases for first-year clients, a strong connection between email list size and member revenue, strong support for nonprofits in particular, and more. Hub data scientist Erin Boon has analyzed client revenue data […]
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Hub Report: WordPress in the newsroom – Workflows, pain points, successes, and opportunities
At the Hub, we’ve been thinking about Content Management Systems for a long time. We’ve been using WordPress in particular for more than 15 years; we’ve seen how this open source publishing platform has evolved — and changed lives. WordPress’ power is in its flexibility, but this flexibility can also lead to complexity for publishers. Our […]