Category: Engagement - Page 19

August 30, 2022

Watchdog Writers Group announces new fellows and student reporters

Authors and students will produce books and articles on the industrial and cultural degradation of the American prairie; the rising incarceration rate among women; and the FBI’s infiltration of Black Lives Matter protests in the Midwest.

A photo collage of portraits of the people quoted in this article and photos of radio studio equipment. Top row from left: Kassidy Arena, Caryn Mathes, Elizabeth Gabriel. Bottom row: Doug Mitchell [photo illustration by Halisia Hubbard], a sound board, a microphone, a Tascam audio recorder, Kamna Shastri.

August 16, 2022

Engagement

Why youth media matters

Youth media is an under-tapped approach to addressing some of public media’s biggest challenges.

La Voz Instagram. 184 followers. Key audience metrics as of 6/8/22. 1. Young audience than Facebook. 67.9% of followers are Gen Z or Millennials. 2. Less gender disparity. ~56% of followers are women, ~53% are men. 3. Localized audience. 46.2% of followers live in Phoenix, top four following cities are all in PHX metro area. 4. 551 average daily page views. Based on PV data from 5/11/22 to 6/7/22.

August 15, 2022

Engagement

How newsrooms can visually navigate internal data

Track audience growth with simple, easy-to-read graphics from built-in platform data.

IWMF Next Gen Safety Trainer Fellows experience flash bang grenades set off as part of the fellowship training during the Dec. 2021 retreat in Virginia. Photo: Tara Pixley

August 9, 2022

Engagement

Source of Safety

Building a trauma and identity-informed safety, security and risk management resource for all bodies and environments.

A screenshot of the interactive map commemorating flood survivors includes a headline that says, “Listen to stories of 1972 Black Hills Flood survivors,” an intro that says, “The marked spots on the map are the locations of where the survivors told their stories. Click on the marked spots on the map to read about or hear from survivors of the 1972 Black Hills Flood.” Finally, credits include Annie Jennemann, Regan Mertz and photos by Johnny Sundby Photography.

July 18, 2022

Engagement

Combining historical and current day journalism in an interactive experience

South Dakota Public Broadcasting used archival maps, audio stories, photos and other content to combine reporting on survivors’ stories

Screenshots from Shay Lawson's CPI Instagram takeover

July 11, 2022

Engagement

How to engage your community with Instagram takeovers

Publications are seeing an increase in the amount of audience members because of new engagement strategies in place.

Newsroom editors, fact-checkers, graphic designers, copy editors, photographers, digital producers and social media managers are often not credited in news stories for their contributions to the work. Typically, reporters are credited in the byline of a story. Illustration: Mikaela Rodenbaugh

June 27, 2022

Engagement

Expanding credit for journalists: looking beyond the byline

Changes to traditional workflows reflect the contributions of all folks in the newsroom.

A screenshot from the accessible data context toolkit shows the checklists to contextualize data in your reporting more thoroughly.

June 13, 2022

Engagement

Providing context for data in journalism

One dataset we used for this work was the Missouri Healthnet Applications. Here are takeaways to assist you in making data points easier to understand for readers