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Media Strategy
Our strategy section explores long-term planning and sustainable development for news organisations. Examine digital transformation, newsroom convergence, audience engagement, revenue diversification, organisational change management, and business models that support quality journalism. All material is free to download, adapt and use. Scroll down our site map for all the content in this and other sections.
Audience research and segmentation
In a rapidly shifting media landscape, where consumers have more choice than ever, a deep understanding of the audience has become essential for all media companies.
Establishing a market differential
This article sets out the process for producing original, in-depth, issue-led journalism designed to inform the public debate.
Project management in media
Media houses continually revise their output to ensure that they retain the existing audience and attract new listeners, viewers, and readers.
Collaborative journalism explained
Newsroom collaboration empowers diverse media outlets to produce original, in-depth investigative reports, broadening the reach and impact of modern journalism.
The value of audience research
Knowing your audience and understanding the issues they face are essential factors in developing a compelling editorial proposition.
Project management skills
Successful media projects, whether new programmes, live event coverage or product launches, rely on following specific regulatory rules and industry guidelines.
Convergence: transforming news production
Introducing a converged news operation is rarely easy. Those trying to introduce changes in workflows, roles and responsibilities are often met with resistance.
Planning a journalistic collaboration
Here we look at the practical steps needed in setting up an editorial collaboration with another news organisation or other information source.
Knowing your audience
Identifying the target audience and discovering the information needs of readers, listeners and viewers, is essential for formulating an editorial proposition.
Community radio project plan
Launching a community radio station is a complicated exercise with lots of overlapping elements. The most important thing to do, before you do anything else, is to stop and think.
Setting up a media business
A media business is like a table with four legs - the target audience, the editorial proposition, values, and the market.
Social media test for mainstream media
Does your media organisation have a social media strategy, reaching out and connecting with your audience on every device they turn to for information?
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