- We need more attention-grabbing photos that ACTUALLY help tell a story, especially on the front page. Or we need to be more comfortable with having no photo/graphic attached to a story.
- More infographics, especially in sports, that enhance a story or replace a story to tell it in a better way
- Better-reported stories: Stop rushing stories that aren’t fully done! Obviously, we have to fill space and stories fall through, but rushing what could be a really interesting, new story to fill space is not the answer!
- Variation in layout design that grabs the reader’s attention: good balance of text and art
Online
- Updated versions of stories AND breaking news that is published right away.
- “Casual” types of art like memes (Spongebob meme) – more relatable student content
- Photo galleries or photo essays to better tell a story (protests)
- Or just photo galleries from a newspaper story where we couldn’t add more than one or two photos to
- Video + audio – provides readers a unique way to consume news through a newspaper – could lead to better page viewership/following
Social media
- Reader interaction: Twitter/Facebook polls, Instagram stories – let people share their opinion(even if you don’t agree)
- BREAKING NEWS!!! (cannot stress this enough)
- Tweet about the breaking while getting brief up – sometimes it takes a while for breaking news briefs to get published so tweeting it lets your following know you’re on the story
- Gifs, short videos, memes, interview audio – the younger generations don’t want to read a lot – give them something visual
- Infographics (might have to format differently than infographics in the paper)