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Personal ads drive community engagement for alt-weekly
How we worked with Pittsburgh City Paper to create a modern-day personals section.
Climate News Task Force
Launched in February 2025, the Climate News Task Force (CNTF) is a collaboration bringing together a dozen diverse news organizations that produce or publish climate news.
Four ways to break down large revenue goals into short-term experiments
From thank-you notes and swag to email strategies reaching specific audiences, what more than 20 newsrooms tested.
Sarah Blesener
Sarah Blesener and Jennifer Jacklin-Stratton will create an iterative, open-source toolkit. Enter/Exit: Trauma-Informed Praxis for Visual Journalism is designed to equip independent journalists and local newsrooms with tools and frameworks for ethical reporting on trauma’s aftermath and visually representing witness testimony with dignity, care, and collaboration. This resource will aim to center survivors’ voices, promote … Continued
Tara Francis Chan
Tara Francis Chan is The Trace’s Director of Operations. Chan will build tools that support newsrooms with innovative and nontraditional structures, processes, and policies as well as amplify their best practices to the journalism industry at large. These tools will include a comprehensive database of nontraditional newsrooms; a guidebook for news startups on nontraditional newsroom models … Continued
Jennifer Jacklin-Stratton
Jennifer Jacklin-Stratton and Sarah Blesener will create an iterative, open-source toolkit. Enter/Exit: Trauma-Informed Praxis for Visual Journalism is designed to equip independent journalists and local newsrooms with tools and frameworks for ethical reporting on trauma’s aftermath and visually representing witness testimony with dignity, care, and collaboration. This resource will aim to center survivors’ voices, promote … Continued
Cara Kuhlman
Cara Kuhlman is the founder of Future Tides, which, according to its website, “covers how people work, play and live on the Pacific Northwest’s waterways.” She will build a digital guidebook to help newsrooms engage in walking tours as a medium for local journalism. It will include a framework to help local publishers assess if … Continued
Nicole Lewis
Nicole Lewis and Lam Vo will build a resource to help local journalists boost civic engagement by developing and implementing a theory of change for their work. Through a theory of change, journalists will be better equipped to make decisions about who they most need to reach and how, in order to have the biggest … Continued
Rebecca Ritzel
Rebecca Ritzel will develop a slate of online resources, including a state-by-state arts grant list, ethical guidance and a template for soliciting philanthropic arts funding. She will build these resources in conjunction with launching a nonprofit that will award grant funding to subsidize arts journalism projects. As a residential fellow, she will work onsite at … Continued
Susan Stellin
Susan Stellin will create the Toolkit for Reporting on Substance Use, Harm Reduction, Addiction, Treatment and Recovery to strengthen reporting on these topics as coverage shifts from a drug war framing to a more health-centered approach grounded in research and evidence. This toolkit will list key surveys, reports, data sets, studies, research hubs, email newsletters, … Continued