Stories About Nissa Rhee
Introducing the Field Canvasser Playbook
A guide to using community organizing techniques to bring journalists closer to their audiences.
How a Chicago News outlet changed its approach after community listening
Listening is just the beginning. News outlets must also make changes to their editorial and engagement strategies in response to what their community says.
Ten things to include in your engagement kit
What to bring whether you’re tabling or sending out field canvassers into your community.
50 Places to connect with community offline
Borderless Magazine shares where you can find and connect with community members in person.
How to hire field canvassers
From job postings to interviews, Borderless Magazine’s Nissa Rhee gives tips for finding the right candidates for field canvassing.
How to implement community listening
Eight steps to begin incorporating field canvassers into your newsroom’s work Borderless Magazine is a small (but mighty!) nonprofit news outlet based in Chicago. We cover immigration and immigrant communities, and about half of our online audience reads our work in Spanish. In order to stretch our modest resources and better serve our audiences, we … Continued
Why your news outlet needs an on-the-ground strategy
Borderless Magazine’s Diane Bou Khalil shares guidance for meeting community members where they’re at.
A Chicago news outlet rethinks ‘hard-to-reach’ audiences
RJI Fellow Nissa Rhee will give people a behind-the-scenes look at how Borderless Magazine is using field canvassers to reach their Spanish communities.