The document provides 14 suggestions for improving an online news operation in the coming year. It recommends frequently updating content online and engaging readers on social media. The suggestions include covering topics readers enjoy, using more lists and videos, integrating print and online coverage, developing a comments policy, exploring new social platforms, and focusing on the user experience across devices. The overall aim is to engage the audience and provide contextual, easy-to-understand content.
Teen Volunteers: Making a Library Volunteer Program Work for Youbleboeuf
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Engaging the Online Reader through Social MediaLogan Aimone
Learn how journalists are using social media to engage their audiences -- both to gather information and to promote content. Presented at AEJMC Gateway Teach-in for scholastic journalism educators, Aug. 9, 2011.
Meh to Epic: Learn from Online PacemakersLogan Aimone
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An overview of NSPA’s signature award, The Pacemaker, with examples from the 2009-10 finalists and winners, presented at the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in Kansas City, Mo., November 2010.
An overview of NSPA’s signature award, The Pacemaker, with examples from the 2011-12 finalists and winners, presented at the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in San Antonio, Nov. 17, 2012.
While the printed page has been the dominant medium in scholastic journalism, online publishing has started to take off. But keep in mind: It’s always about people. Plus: 15 Things to Think About for 2010-2011.
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I was sick of working for the man, so I finally quit. But, now that I left my job as a journalist, the one I spent five years at West Virginia University spending $80,000 preparing for I didn’t know what to do. I jumped off the cliff and needed to survive. I was a nobody, literally. I was getting into a world that I had zero relationships with. I wanted needed to create one and fast as my life now depended on it.
Two things happened, I looked through the relationships I already had and saw where they overlapped from my journalism world and now into the business world. Taking an inventory of my life can be done by looking through yearbooks, online accounts, emails, directories and/or anywhere you have a relationship.
There was a colleague of mine from tv news whose family owned a small business in Virginia Beach, VA. I reached out and introduced myself to them. Today, over eight years later that relationship is still very strong.
I read a book by CJ Hayden, Get Clients Now. Hayden details how if you are a nobody in life or in business that it is ok, because everyone has to start somewhere. But what do you do? You invite those who you want a relationship to your office. You create small educational events and invite them. In college, I would throw parties several weekends a year. Nobody wants to go to a party that sucks. If your party sucks, the guests you want won’t show up or bail once they arrive and notice how lackluster it is. To get guests to my events (or parties during college) I picked up the phone and invited them (or texted or emailed). The key is you MUST invite individuals and not just post an event on Facebook (or a flyer on a college board) if you expect people to attend. That individualized attention can and will go the extra mile and will increase your probability to get guests.
Anomaly is defined as something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected. So, as a new “businessman” I had to be different. I had to be the anomaly. In the coming pages I will showcase how I turned being an anomaly into a well-respected successful businessman, who could land any meeting by following the script we will blueprint out.
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While the printed page has been the dominant medium in scholastic journalism, online publishing has started to take off. But keep in mind: It’s always about people.
As a student at Millersville University, Alexandra Blessing worked at the McNairy Library front desk for three years. In her final year, Alexandra was tasked to create and compose a social media plan for the library's annual Made in Millersville conference, which is a celebration of the work Millersville students completed in their courses throughout the year. With her background in pubic relations and social media management, Alexandra Blessing built a social media plan from scratch, and outlined her processes in this guidebook.
More Than Both Sides — Redefining Objectivity Spring 2024Logan Aimone
Objectivity has been the gold standard in journalism. But whose objectivity? As journalists debate their role — especially when it comes to race — the traditional definition of “objective” must evolve beyond detached stenography and performative balance. Learn how increasing standards of fairness and transparency can improve credibility and trust.
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An overview of NSPA’s signature award, The Pacemaker, with examples from the 2011-12 finalists and winners, presented at the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention in San Francisco, April 27, 2013.
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Session Overview
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14 in '14 Online Edition
1. 14 in ’14
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Improving your online
news operation this year
Logan Aimone, MJE
Permission granted for educational classroom use only.
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2. Why try?
• Work constantly to improve. What you do, and how you
do it, should be in flux.
• Experiment. There are not a lot of well-tested best
practices online. Figure out the best for your community.
• Improve and engage. Better content yields an engaged
audience. You want both.
• That’s success all around!
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3. Try some new endeavors to
improve your online news
operation. Here are 14 things you
can try.
You don’t have to try them all at
once, but you can get started right
away.
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4. 1. Stop thinking in issues.
• Think online first.
• The website is live. Update it frequently.
• Don’t just dump your print content online. Post when stories
are ready.
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5. 2. Don’t assume people
are coming to you.
• Attract them through social media promotions and referrals,
commenting and contextual linking.
• Share more. Make it easy.
• Referrals matter.
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6. 3. Cover the things
your audience likes.
• Include coverage of recreational and leisure pursuits:
horseback riding, boating, hiking, etc.
• Video games are hugely popular but get little coverage.
• Don’t be locked into a template of sections just because other
news sites do. Suggestions: Health, finance, consumer news.
• When you commit to a category, you’ll create content for it.
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7. 4. Do more lists.
• Listicle: A simple, arbitrary grouping
Example: “28 duck-face selfies”
• Definitive list: All-encompassing inventory
Example: “The 63 best moments from Homecoming 2013”
• Framework list: Only exists to structure a narrative; number
is arbitrary — whatever it takes to organize/tell the story
Example: “36 reasons you should volunteer for the Red Cross”
• More info here, here and here.
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9. 5. Let print and Web
work together.
• Don't assume the audience is reading both.
• If coverage spans both platforms, make sure a reader can catch
up through a printed summary or a digital sidebar.
• Use website for updates between printed editions.
• It’s not just about a story page. Social media posts contribute
to communicating to the audience. Consider using Storify.
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10. 6. Provide context.
• Tag or categorize related stories.
• Use contextual linking, which aids the reader who might be
coming late to a story.
• Use short links, which are based on the database, not the
initial URL.
• Nerd alert: Kill the “http://domain.com” for internal links.
• Use mug shots and pull quotes. A sidebar can also add a list of
facts or summarize past coverage.
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11. 7. Develop and publish a
comments policy.
• You need one.
• Facebook or Disqus plugins are an option, but you can't truly
moderate as a result.
• Instead, require a verifiable email address and spot-check
occasionally.
• Three insightful comments with names are better than 300
worthless rants from anonymous trolls.
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12. 8. Show your background.
• Put your policies, awards, practices and interesting trivia in
the “About” section where people can find them.
• On the header, provide the name of school and physical
address.
• Make it easy for visitors to contact you. Even a generic
“contact” email is helpful. If you use a form, make sure it
sends a confirmation after the form is submitted.
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13. 9. Engage readers.
• Allow and encourage comments.
• Develop a conversation with your audience via comments as
well as social media. Interact.
• Ask followers for story ideas, tips, sources, submissions and
feedback on how you are doing. It’s a two-way conversation.
• Nerd alert: Use Akismet (free for nonprofits; flags spam).
You’ll be glad you did.
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14. 10. Explore a new
social platform.
• Instagram, Tumblr, Reddit.
• Each has a distinct audience.
• Discover the journalistic use for things your peers are already
using.
• Anticipate what's next: Kik? Snapchat? Something else?
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15. 11. Use your analytics.
• See what people are searching for, how they got to the site,
what they are spending time with.
• Use them as a classroom motivator. Can you get more visitors?
Can you increase referrals from certain platforms?
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16. 12. Think about
your audience.
• Is the site responsive for mobile and tablet readers?
• Focus on the content, and make it great.
• Have a well-designed UI.
• It’s about the UX, stupid.
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17. Watch this, and think.
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18. 13. Use the home page as
a dashboard and menu.
• Kill the Twitter feed from your home page. The reader is
already at the website. Keep Twitter feeds that aren't referrals
(sports scores, other interesting links).
• Nobody cares about your PDFs.
• Showcase the most important stories in the carousel, not just
the most recent. Help the reader see what matters.
• Reconfigure based on the news of the day.
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19. 14. The story page is
your landing page.
• Less hub-and-spoke navigation to/from home page.
• More inter-category clicking.
• Make it easy for the reader to find information and understand
the story with context and navigation.
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20. Remember…
• Your role on campus is to inform your audience, not just to
write stories or take photos.
• You have a responsibility — an obligation, even — to take that
seriously and to do it well.
• Your audience needs you to tell the story in a truthful,
authentic way.
• Doing a good job means thinking about what the reader needs
and using tools to meet those needs, not just providing digital
versions of printed newspapers.
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