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How does search engine optimization affect news organizations?

By Andrew Chavez on May 14, 2010

Note: This is a continuation of last week’s post on search engine optimization. As the influence of search on Web users’ habits increases, understanding how to create content optimized for search engines is increasingly important. That is especially true for professional communicators who create online content. In news, media companies have hired search engine optimization professionals and [...]

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Why does search engine optimization matter?

Why does search engine optimization matter?

By Andrew Chavez on April 30, 2010

No doubt communications professionals, whether in journalism, advertising or public relations, are used to working with a wide range of specialists – photographers, copy editors, designers, sales representatives, etc. But there’s a new position in many organizations that has grown out of a need to put professionally-produced content in front of new readers: the SEO. [...]

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What are the skills of the online journalist?

What are the skills of the online journalist?

By Andrew Chavez on April 23, 2010

The Web presents many challenges for news organizations – new consumption patterns, multi-platform distribution and a whole new business model. But it also presents new challenges for individual journalists because producing news online requires many new skills that had previously been absent from legacy media. There is still an emphasis on traditional reporting skills. In [...]

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Is the nonprofit news model sustainable?

By Andrew Chavez on April 16, 2010

Nonprofit news organizations continue to emerge through university partnerships, local communities foundations and wealthy local philanthropists. While few question the motives of these organizations, many of which tackle topics no longer addressed by legacy media, the sustainability of these organizations is repeatedly called into question. One of the most prominent critiques of late was written [...]

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