David Cohn

Opinion | How does a news organization succeed in 2023? One word: Retention.

Media organizations typically rely on two revenue streams more than any others: advertising and subscriptions. The first is predicated on building a big audience to sell that attention. The second focuses on creating a coveted audience that will pay…

Latino Community Reporting Lab

The Record-Journal founded the Latino Communities Reporting Lab in March 2021 as a long-term initiative guided by the voices of the Latinos in our communities.

David Cohn

Over the last fifteen years David Cohn has been at the forefront of innovation in media, working on some of the first experiments in crowdsourcing, mobile first news, socially optimized content and more. He has been published in the New York Times,…

David Cohn

David Cohn Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder, Subtext at Advance Publications @Digidave Over the past 15 years David has worked at the intersection of technology and journalism, with a focus on new products, business models, audience growth,…

Last year’s NPA Summit convened 480+ news product thinkers to share ideas, make connections and learn new skills.🎉 With the support of our phenomenal 2022 NPA Summit sponsors, we awarded 120 scholarship tickets — 90% of which went to women, ppl of…

AI made this prediction

“Some (not all) journalists will navigate their careers as those who can leverage this technology to improve the news ecosystem.” To make my 2023 prediction I’ve leaned heavily on artificial intelligence. After creating the script with the AI-enabled…

This seasoned startup builder found a bulletproof way to collect all the articles, podcasts, and videos that mention him

If you are building out your brand as a thought leader in your industry, you are probably very happy about every piece of content that mentions you. But what’s next? How do you actually utilize all this content? David Cohn let us in on how exactly he…

Meet 10 of the stellar mentors in the #NPAMentorNetwork program, which will start later this month!We received 300+ applications from nearly 50 countries before the deadline! 🌎The 150 selected mentees will be matched with one of 50 amazing mentors…

Opinion | The future of content creation with AI is closer than you might think

For better or worse, we all know what artificial intelligence has done for news feeds. A growing area to focus on is what AI can do for content origination. AI is usually thought of as a tool to tackle mundane tasks like transcription or…

The News Movement and Its Unorthodox Vision Launch in the US

Social news publisher The News Movement launched in the U.S. Wednesday, following a 10-month period where the startup honed its editorial strategy and accrued more than 80,000 followers across the major social media platforms. The publisher has…

Opinion | Journalism and Big Tech continue to build on a bed of sand

It’s a Faustian bargain that publishers have made over and over. News organizations partner with a big technology company like Facebook or TikTok and ultimately the platforms optimize for things like personal user data, on-platform engagement or…

30 Medium publications about journalism to follow

Launched in 2012 by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Medium features a uniform, minimalistic design that puts the writing in the spotlight. It became the blogging platform of choice for many individual journalists. In updating this piece from 2016,…

IPI - The Global Network for Independent Media

What are the best ways to reach the readers where they are – and build new audiences? Join the #IPIWoCo conversation w/ @simonajaz, @priyakamal, @dasmaran, @chaniguyot, and @Digidave to find out. Sept. 10 in NYC buff.ly/3zOeXw7 What comes first? The…

David Cohn: Google Project Management Certificate

Those who earn the Google Project Management Certificate have completed six courses, developed by Google, that include hands-on, practice-based assessments and are designed to prepare them for introductory-level roles in Project Management. They are…

How reporters can walk a mile in their sources’ shoes

One purpose for journalism is to enable a community to speak with itself. In this conception journalists are a mouthpiece for the community, to allow reflection and share information. This is a journalist as a conduit. To do this effectively tho

Q&A with David Cohn of Subtext

In this Q&A, I have a chance to talk with David Cohn, Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder of Subtext at Advance Publications. Cohn explains how text messaging can serve as a connector between the reader and the reporter and/or the news organizat

The Stacker Newswire: how we deliver stories to over 2,000 newsrooms

On any given day, Stacker journalism is delivered to more than 2,000 newsrooms across North America ranging from large metropolitan papers and small-town broadcasters to university newsrooms and local tourism boards. The systems required to…

How objectivity got a bad rap and where do we go from here?

In the recently released Reuters Digital News Report 2022, one key finding centered on how younger and older news consumers believe journalists should behave on social media: "In our survey, around half of respondents or more in most countries feel…

The Rundown: How CoinDesk is using crypto tokens for in-person event sponsorship deals

Advertisers have been itching for the return of in-person events, largely to get back the face-to-face moments with attendees and what those experiential additives can do for brand awareness. But with the looming recession, being able to track how…

How free service journalism and paywalls can coexist

Journalism is often filled with competing interests. The “business side” versus the “editorial side” is a classic example. Another is the chase for eyeballs via clickbait or the quality pursuit of awards. There are many forces in our industry that…