Grant Cycles Are Killing Your Product Roadmap
One- and two-year grant cycles make it nearly impossible to build a platform that actually serves your audience long-term. Here's how to plan anyway.
Belonging Is a Design Problem
Most nonprofit news sites are built for strangers. That is a design failure, not just an editorial one, and it costs you...
The Case for Shared Infrastructure in Nonprofit News (And Why It Keeps Failing)
Shared technology platforms for nonprofit news networks make obvious sense on paper. The execution is where things fall ...
Local News Has a Stress Advantage. Are You Using It?
A new study confirms that local news reduces stress in ways national news cannot. Here is how community media outlets ca...
Audio-First Newsrooms Still Have Web Problems
Going audio or video-first does not mean your website stops mattering. It means your website has a different job to do.
The News Hub Is an Architecture Decision, Not a Content Decision
Religion News Service just raised $1 million to build a news hub around faith and immigration. The smartest part of that...
Your Newsletter Metrics Are Probably Measuring the Wrong Things
Open rate tells you what happened last Tuesday. It does not tell you whether your newsletter is building a habit. Local ...