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The Power of Human Moderation

Posted by andrew on January 11, 2019 | Featured | No Comments

We describe four different archetypes for moderating communities … Read More

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The Results of Our Survey of Marginalized Voices

Posted by andrew on September 12, 2018 | Featured | No Comments

The voices of women of color and gender nonbinary people of color are often missing from the comments. We surveyed more than 350 people to find out why – and what we can do about it. … Read More

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Marginalized Voices in Comment Spaces

Posted by coralproject on December 4, 2017 | Featured

What we learned from people whose voices were not represented in most comment sections … Read More

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Help Us Broaden The Conversation

Posted by sydette on March 13, 2017 | Featured

Announcing our latest research collaboration, an investigation into underserved communities of color … Read More

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What Women Want in a Community

Posted by messier on January 23, 2017 | Featured

To increase the diversity of your community, you need to know the social rewards and cues that work for many women … Read More

Tags: Gender

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12,000 people have something to say

Posted by coralproject on January 12, 2017 | Featured

We’ve just released a study of thousands of commenters, conducted with the Engaging News Project at the University of Texas-Austin … Read More

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The Real Name Fallacy

Posted by coralproject on January 3, 2017 | Featured

Many say that horrible comments would vanish if people were forced to use their real names. Thirty years of research suggests otherwise. … Read More

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What Do Frequent Commenters Want?

Posted by coralproject on October 19, 2016 | Featured

A detailed look at the habits and needs of 15 people who spend a lot of time in the comments … Read More

Tags: interviews, user research, UX

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User-Submitted Malware: A Safety Guide For Journalists

Posted by martin on September 29, 2016 | Featured

When you ask people to send you images and documents, you are creating a potential risk for your newsroom … Read More

Tags: cyber-security, malware, security

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How To Use Forms With Your Audience

Posted by sydette on July 26, 2016 | Featured

If you don’t ask in the right way, you can alienate the readers with whom you’re trying to connect … Read More

New Community Tools: Hearken

Posted by nicole on July 19, 2016 | Featured

An exciting tool that increases engagement and connections between newsrooms and the public … Read More

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Can Design Make the Comments Nicer?

Posted by Caroline Sinders on June 22, 2016 | Featured

What does signing in to comments tell us about comment spaces? Caroline Sinders takes a look … Read More

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How Can Newsrooms Not Be Creepy?

Posted by martin on June 6, 2016 | Featured

If journalists want readers to share personal information, they have to make them feel safe … Read More

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Three new users

Posted by coralproject on May 10, 2016 | Featured

We’ve added some new users to our personas list … Read More

New Community Tools : Groundsource

Posted by tiffany on May 4, 2016 | Featured

GroundSource increases audience engagement through the simplest of tech platforms … Read More

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Artificial Moderation: A Reading List

Posted by nick on March 29, 2016 | Featured

Current academic research in artificial moderation … Read More

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How To Argue Successfully Online

Posted by pedro on March 21, 2016 | Featured

If we can’t agree on basic reality or facts, how can we discuss what’s right and wrong? … Read More

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Where The Audience Is At

Posted by tiffany on March 21, 2016 | Featured

There are better ways to handle your comments, says The Engaging News Project’s Dr. Talia Stroud … Read More

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Meet Our Users

Posted by coralproject on March 8, 2016 | Featured

We’ve created a fictional group of personas to help us build for real user needs. How can we improve them? … Read More

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Creating Community Culture

Posted by mconnelly on February 18, 2016 | Featured

How to build a space that helps people build relationships with each other … Read More

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Alternative News Editors Offer Alternatives to Commenting

Posted by greg on February 2, 2016 | Featured

What can Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl teach us about audience? … Read More

Advice for the Accidental Community Manager

Posted by jessamyn on January 15, 2016 | Featured

Librarian, internet folk hero and former Metafilter moderator Jessamyn West explains how to run a successful community. … Read More

New Community Tools: Civil Comments

Posted by sydette on January 11, 2016 | Featured

Second in a series about new community tools. … Read More

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Raising Women’s Voices

Posted by messier on December 17, 2015 | Featured

The absence of women’s voices is a problem for democracy, and for news organizations’ bottom lines.
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