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Welcome to Baekdal/Plus

Baekdal/Plus is for journalists and editors who want to be more relevant to their readers. Each edition of this weekly newsletter focuses on ways you can help improve your coverage, avoid mistakes that are known to drive people away, and overall create something more useful for people to read. Baekdal/Plus also includes Baekdal/Basic (news and trends), but it does not include Baekdal/Executive (media reports for media executives and other decision makers).

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How a simple change in reporting can dramatically alter our quality of news

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How AI can help the newsroom, as a partner for your journalists

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Why can't you search the The New York Times Best Seller list?

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Climate illiteracy is not acceptable in 2024

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The most important focus areas for newsrooms in 2024

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What is your news to noise ratio

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What is a journalistic AI? And why is that important?

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What really killed Jezebel...

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Where do publishers get traffic from? Analysis across 5500 publishers

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When local journalism becomes the hero of the night; covering a storm surge

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Let's take the gloves off: What do newspapers need to change?

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How do we actually define clickbait?

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strategy:
Auditing how 30 different newspapers present the news to the public

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Can we ever make comments work?

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Top-level Audience Success Metrics. How do we define audience growth?

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We need to do more than just report the news

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Facebook and publishers? What is the future outlook?

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What is the future role of pageviews for publishers?

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A quick guide to newsroom metrics

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Why fixing your front page is critical to the future of news

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Social or newspaper websites? Let's analyze the data

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The opinion, speculations, and reaction crisis

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Human vs non-human journalism

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Ranking the value you create for your audience

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Trust and relevance is the same problem

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I'm not impressed with large-scale AIs, but I am impressed with the smaller ones

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How the journalistic focus can either help or undermine audience loyalty

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Is Substack failing?

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How bad would it be to have a worldwide drop in cognitive ability of 20%?

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Why is ePaper growing?

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The problems with password sharing

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How scared should we be of AIs taking our jobs?

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Operational security and the dangers of online sharing for journalists

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How CNET shot themselves in their AI foot

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The loss of a journalist and the year ahead (2023) for publishers

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A media analyst's New Year's Resolutions for publishers

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The media in 2023, and advertising in 10 years

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When things change, so must how we report about it

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Trust in news is about more than the news

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Don't bet on the platforms

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Analysis: The election drama...

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When the news create the story

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Trusted newspapers lose trust when optimizing for traffic

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Magazines need to sell what's in them, not the magazine itself

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What we can learn from covering the hole in the ozone layer in the 1970s-1980s

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Getting people to love journalism again

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Abortion and privacy is everyone's problem

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Let's talk about news avoidance (again)

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The 1% climate coverage problem, and the double standard of journalistic focus

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A media analyst's perspective on referendum coverage

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Preventive journalism, the confused public, and what we (the press) need to change before the next pandemic

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Analysis: Polarized climate coverage

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What really is relevancy?