Do more with less
How a six-person digital newsroom chases a +40% DAU goal.
A four-panel comic strip telling Eva's day as head of digital at a six-person newsroom. Panel 1: Eva sits at her desk facing a wall chart with a plus 40 percent DAU target line. Six empty chair silhouettes line the wall behind her. Panel 2: Split frame — Eva and her team in a heads-down editorial meeting on the left, a competitor's TikTok showing 12 million views on the right for the breaking story Eva missed. Panel 3: Eva at a clean dashboard. The Breaking News Agent sits in the center with two glowing pipes — a purple Auto-publish pipe shipping to YouTube, TikTok, Reels, and X automatically, and a green To-editor pipe with three judgment-call stories queued for Eva's review. Panel 4: The same growth chart from panel 1, with the line now crossing the plus 40 percent target ahead of schedule. Sam asks "Wait — we already hit the number?" and Eva thinks "Feed stayed fed. Same six of us."






