Subscription Messages

With funding from the American Press Institute, CME researchers tested different engagement methods aimed at prompting new subscribers in three different newsrooms.

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Our mission: Improve media engagement.

The Center for Media Engagement provides news organizations research-based techniques for engaging digital audiences in commercially viable and democratically beneficial ways.

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Funders and Partners

Democracy Fund
Knight Foundation
Facebook
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Rita Allen Foundation
Google
Moody College of Communication
Robert R. McCormick Foundation
Solutions Journalism Network
The Lenfest Institute
The News Integrity Initiative
The Coral Project
The Omidyar Network
Santa Clara University, Trust Project