How-to
Doesn’t matter the worksheet, goal planning is the same
Make sure your team’s goals roll up, down.
As a white manager, how do I build trust and be a good ally to my colleagues of color?
Our first DEI Coalition public resource and how we turned private community conversations into a shared resource.
Journalists: If you’ve worked with others to change your newsroom, you’re probably an organizer
Three lessons I’ve learned about journalism, organizing, and how closely intertwined they are.
Redesign your live meeting agenda doc with these templates
How to prioritize people who are participating on their own time.
A guide to social branding on any newsroom budget
With tools like Canva, Projector, and Adobe Spark, newsrooms of any size can create brand guidelines.
How to design your inclusive source diversity audit
Five months ago, Chalkbeat and the Reynolds Journalism Institute launched a project that will make it easier for newsrooms to track the diversity of their sources.
How to successfully hand-off projects and initiatives
Abigail Shaw put together multiple toolkits to help the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service continue to implement the initiatives and social media campaigns she has been planning all summer.
Creating advertising graphics for your newsroom’s Instagram
Creating graphics for Instagram may seem easy, but strategy and technique are required when generating graphics for your organization to engage your audience.
Free tools for interactive digital storytelling
Interactive maps and data visualizations are great visuals to add to any online news package. These can be created using code, but there are also many online tools that your newsroom can use to improve digital storytelling for very little or no cost.
Social media policies are not the real issue
Gabe Schneider, Kendra Pierre-Louis, Sisi Wei and Karen K. Ho in a discussion around how newsrooms can work to become anti-racist starting with their social media policies and how they enforce them. Reporters of color being punished and fired for tweets is a symptom of the larger problem that newsrooms need to tackle head on. … Continued