How to work with librarians and ESL teachers to reach communities

A blueprint for finding ways to collaborate with librarians and other civil servants to bring quality information to hard-to-reach communities An update about immigration policies. News about the wars in Iran and Israel. The recipe of a delicious meal. This is how one ESL (English as a Second Language)  adult student described their social media … Continued

Bay City News Election Playbook, Part 2: Newsrooms can vibe code their way to automated election night dashboard

Election night is a high-stakes, labor-intensive operation — and not just for the candidates. As voters wait for returns, community journalists fight an uphill battle to make sense of data released in disparate formats from different sources. But a breakthrough experiment at Bay City News provides a new blueprint for success. By leveraging generative artificial … Continued

The Bridge (RiverWise)

I teamed up with an after school program to have a listening session with students about what they want to see in the news, and then the students created our April newsletter.

Investigate Midwest

Investigate Midwest built a centralized impact tracking system in Airtable to better document how our journalism is amplified and how it creates change over time.

Feet in 2 Worlds

Feet in 2 Worlds brought back our virtual workshops focused on audio journalism techniques, “Interviewing for Audio” — a two-day course.