Comments on: Newsletters – your secret to developing sources http://www.yonigreenbaum.com/index.php/20080113/newsletters-your-secret-to-developing-sources/ Online musings from the newsroom and beyond . . . by Yoni Greenbaum Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Carnival of Journalism 2 (Gnostic edition) | Adrian Monck http://www.yonigreenbaum.com/index.php/20080113/newsletters-your-secret-to-developing-sources/comment-page-1/#comment-507 Carnival of Journalism 2 (Gnostic edition) | Adrian Monck Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:42:51 +0000 http://www.yonigreenbaum.com/index.php/20080113/newsletters-your-secret-to-developing-sources/#comment-507 [...] Yoni Greenbaum at Editor on the verge tells reporters to start developing email newsletters to help build contacts. [...] [...] Yoni Greenbaum at Editor on the verge tells reporters to start developing email newsletters to help build contacts. [...]

]]> By: Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media » Tuesday squibs http://www.yonigreenbaum.com/index.php/20080113/newsletters-your-secret-to-developing-sources/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Notes from a Teacher: Mark on Media » Tuesday squibs Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:09:15 +0000 http://www.yonigreenbaum.com/index.php/20080113/newsletters-your-secret-to-developing-sources/#comment-146 [...] Newsletters - your secret to developing sources. One of the coolest ideas I’ve read in a while is this advice for beat reporters. Multiple advantages for a little work. [...] [...] Newsletters – your secret to developing sources. One of the coolest ideas I’ve read in a while is this advice for beat reporters. Multiple advantages for a little work. [...]

]]> By: shawn smith http://www.yonigreenbaum.com/index.php/20080113/newsletters-your-secret-to-developing-sources/comment-page-1/#comment-144 shawn smith Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:19:18 +0000 http://www.yonigreenbaum.com/index.php/20080113/newsletters-your-secret-to-developing-sources/#comment-144 Here's a couple: Daily stories from The Grand Rapids Press http://www.mlive.com/grpress/newsletter.ssf Stories primarily by one reporter for environmental news: http://www.mlive.com/watershedwatch/newsletter.ssf Home and Garden news: http://www.mlive.com/homeandgarden/newsletter.ssf Reporter specific emails could be good. We do use feedburner off individual blogs which do offer email updates. We haven't yet created any single-reporter newsletters, except for the environmental one I mentioned, but that's not a bad idea. Here’s a couple:
Daily stories from The Grand Rapids Press
http://www.mlive.com/grpress/newsletter.ssf

Stories primarily by one reporter for environmental news: http://www.mlive.com/watershedwatch/newsletter.ssf

Home and Garden news: http://www.mlive.com/homeandgarden/newsletter.ssf

Reporter specific emails could be good. We do use feedburner off individual blogs which do offer email updates. We haven’t yet created any single-reporter newsletters, except for the environmental one I mentioned, but that’s not a bad idea.

]]> By: Yoni Greenbaum http://www.yonigreenbaum.com/index.php/20080113/newsletters-your-secret-to-developing-sources/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Yoni Greenbaum Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:58:22 +0000 http://www.yonigreenbaum.com/index.php/20080113/newsletters-your-secret-to-developing-sources/#comment-142 @Charlie - Thanks. I've had reporters who over the years have used the technique and actually enjoyed it. In addition to appealing to the "self-publicist," it plays right into many reporters love of email. @Shawn - Do you produce reporter-specific emails or just topic-specific ones? If you wouldn't mind forwarding one or providing a link if there's an online equivalent I would appreciate it. @Charlie – Thanks. I’ve had reporters who over the years have used the technique and actually enjoyed it. In addition to appealing to the “self-publicist,” it plays right into many reporters love of email.

@Shawn – Do you produce reporter-specific emails or just topic-specific ones? If you wouldn’t mind forwarding one or providing a link if there’s an online equivalent I would appreciate it.

]]> By: shawn smith http://www.yonigreenbaum.com/index.php/20080113/newsletters-your-secret-to-developing-sources/comment-page-1/#comment-141 shawn smith Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:45:13 +0000 http://www.yonigreenbaum.com/index.php/20080113/newsletters-your-secret-to-developing-sources/#comment-141 And the sales people will like you because you are giving them something else to sell! One item of note, promote your newsletter! We redesigned our newsletters about two months ago, and then we slapped newsletter signup boxes on a number of our pages. Within a month, some newsletters were up 50-120 subscribers. And the sales people will like you because you are giving them something else to sell! One item of note, promote your newsletter! We redesigned our newsletters about two months ago, and then we slapped newsletter signup boxes on a number of our pages. Within a month, some newsletters were up 50-120 subscribers.

]]> By: Charlie Beckett http://www.yonigreenbaum.com/index.php/20080113/newsletters-your-secret-to-developing-sources/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Charlie Beckett Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:59:28 +0000 http://www.yonigreenbaum.com/index.php/20080113/newsletters-your-secret-to-developing-sources/#comment-140 Yoni, That's a great and simple idea. I particularly like it because it appeals to the self-publicist lurking within every great reporter. Do you know anyone who is doing it? and if so, whether it works? cheers Charlie Beckett Polis, LSE Yoni,
That’s a great and simple idea. I particularly like it because it appeals to the self-publicist lurking within every great reporter.
Do you know anyone who is doing it? and if so, whether it works?
cheers
Charlie Beckett
Polis, LSE

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