Industry News on Audience
This year's class of 10 News Publishers That Do It Right is an excellent representation of small-town communities to large city properties; monthly, weekly, and daily print properties; and traditional print, digital news, business and alternative publishers — representing the breadth and depth of our industry.
There are more than 30 million hearing-impaired persons in the U.S. who can’t be part of the growing podcast audience. The pioneering transcript format used by the Vox Creative team is more visual. It shares more of the emotions and feelings of a podcast to create an experience more inclusive for the deaf and hard-of-hearing audience.
The Cleveland Jewish Publication Company, publisher of the Cleveland Jewish News, announced Dec. 21 that it has reached an agreement with the Jewish Community Board of Akron to publish a new Akron Jewish News, a monthly newspaper to serve the Akron Jewish community.
Yasir Khan, editor-in-chief at Thomson Reuters Foundation, shared audience engagement lessons learned across two decades of working with publishers ranging from Al Jazeera to CBC to Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The report, free to download, is an essential read for publishers beginning the long road to recovery from the pandemic.
The number of digital-only subscribers to BeaconJournal.com more than doubled in 2020 and again in 2021 with a month left in the year.
In the first quarter of 2019, the 25 newspapers had a combined circulation of 4.7m. A year later, this total figure had fallen by 11% to 4.2m. The latest figures for these titles show a combined circulation of 3.4m, down 20% in a year.
After more than a year’s closure due to the pandemic, Maui’s independent source of news and information is coming back strong. The first full edition of the new publication, along with a companion daily digital website, will launch Sept. 9.
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