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How ProPublica, OPB Used Digital Magazines to Showcase Stories Anew | Mediashift | PBS

How ProPublica, OPB Used Digital Magazines to Showcase Stories Anew | Mediashift | PBS | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Digital magazine publishing is increasingly within reach for all kinds of content creators — big, small, non-profit, for profit. As another way to reuse existing content and reach audiences, digital magazines might especially appeal to non-profit and public media news organizations.


At least two such organizations — ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting — have launched free digital iPad magazines to showcase their reporting. The magazines are a low-cost way to gain exposure for their work because they repurpose existing digital content into a new storytelling medium. These organizations’ creative use of digital magazines shows how versatile digital magazines are, and early reactions to the publications suggest the experiments may be a success....

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Great storytelling always wins in journalism. Same for PR and marketing too. Here's a useful look at how two organizations are getting great results from digital magazines.

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Flipboard Brings Its Mobile Magazines To The Web | TechCrunch

Flipboard Brings Its Mobile Magazines To The Web | TechCrunch | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Beyond distribution and a better user experience, being web friendly fits into the Flipboard business plan. The company has begun selling full-page ads mixed in with regular content like what you might see in a high-end print magazine. Larger professional publishers, including the owners of this publication, currently have revenue-sharing agreements in place for their own magazines, but the company plans to expand that to other content and curation creators.


Around two million magazines have been created since the March launch of the DIY tool, and many of the top ones are being curated by enthusiasts rather than pros — photography, maritime shipping, beer, and GIFS are some example themes. There’s a lot of additional reader attention to sell against.


But what about the publications trying to figure out their online (and mobile) business models? Why should they want Flipboard to get a piece of their precious few remaining ad dollars via alternative destinations like native apps and now its own web links?For some of them/us, the answer is going to be that they don’t have the resources to build good web sites and mobile apps anyway. For others, it’s that they can build their own products but don’t know how to monetize them well....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Could this be a digital magazine Renaissance? Flipboard's early results are impressive. Take a look at several excellent digital magazine examples in this post.

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