Partnerships & collaborations

Subscribe to Updates Use partnerships, third-party services, shared resource arrangements and flexible staffing to expand your capacity and capabilities across all areas of your enterprise. Do this in ways that lower investment requirements, add flexibility to your cost structure, increase speed and better share risks compared to doing it on your own.

Big Picture A primer on partnerships & collaborations

Partnerships & collaboration: A primer

It’s an unfortunate and unavoidable truth of modern news: Local journalism outlets are constantly stretching their limited resources.

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Plan Strategic considerations for leveraging partnerships & collaborations

Ryan Lillis, Assistant managing editor of The Sacramento Bee, September 2020

Complexity: Intermediate

Partnerships & collaborations

How The Sacramento Bee built strong community partnerships to serve audiences it had long neglected

Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: Through partnerships with groups outside of mainstream media, The Sacramento Bee attracted new readers, gained access to a diverse talent pool of journalists and elevated the voice of under-resourced communities in the area.

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Do Tactics to help you strengthen and scale your partnerships & collaborations

Erica Smith, Times Union, April 2024

Complexity: Intermediate

Storytelling

Pushing weather coverage beyond the basics

Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: The Times Union partnered with a nearby university to build a data-rich, low-cost weather and climate product.

19 min

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Kamaria Roberts, American Press Institute, November 2023

Complexity: Beginner

Diversifying revenue

The 10 most popular Better News case studies of 2023

Here are 10 ideas to steal and adapt: From developing audience personas to building trust, these original case studies are the most-viewed in 2023 on BetterNews.org.

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David Plazas, The Tennessean, November 2023

Complexity: Intermediate

Audience loyalty & trust

Try these community-centered election strategies from the Tennessean

By taking this approach for local elections, the news organization created a significant, authentic public service experience around local politics.

18 min

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Partnerships & collaborations

Big Picture A primer on partnerships & collaborations

Plan Strategic considerations for leveraging partnerships & collaborations

Do Tactics to help you strengthen and scale your partnerships & collaborations

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