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Joe Amditis is the assistant director for products and events at the Center for Cooperative Media. Photo: Center for Cooperative Media
December 27, 2022
Innovation

Defined focus can help newsrooms automate

A contained core of apps and systems keeps automated tools approachable and trackable: A discussion with Joe Amditis.

Vev interface
December 22, 2022
Innovation

You can make your stories more interactive with Vev

Use scrolling vertical and third-party platforms to enrich your interactive journalism.

A Google Calendar integration shows a newsroom’s ideas for December follow-up stories.
November 28, 2022
Innovation

Automating story follow-up tracking — for free

Airtable, Zapier and Google Drive products make remembering when to circle back to a topic a breeze. We built a simple automation system to track and share ideas for follow-up stories.

Understand algorithmic bias in journalism
November 21, 2022
Innovation

Understand algorithmic bias in journalism

AI is human designed, making it unsurprising that it reflects human bias.

Jerry Lee Lewis obituary SEO
November 14, 2022
Innovation

How do you make a Slack bot that users of all levels can interact with and get insights from?

SEO is beyond a technical problem, it’s also a user experience problem.

Mari Galicer leads a session on digital safety and security during a HEFAT [Hostile Environment & First Aid Training] offered by IWMF [Intl. Women’s Media Foundation] in Los Angeles Sept. 13-16, 2022. Photo: Tara Pixley
October 25, 2022
Innovation

Securing our safety online

What journalists need to know about digital security.

Could local newsrooms become more sustainable if they add more AI tools to their practice? Image created in Canva
October 13, 2022
Innovation

Why local news should be utilizing AI

How you’re already using it and how it can help your newsroom.

A flow chart of text boxes and arrows shows a progression of messages and triggering criteria, from a welcome message to a list of resources.
October 3, 2022
Innovation

Creating an affordable text system for your community centered newsroom

SMS systems are often expensive, pay per a text plans can make it affordable.

A screenshot of a Lighthouse report on an article in The Texas Tribune.
September 28, 2022
Innovation

Making sense of your core web vitals

Learn how the loading speed, accessibility and other performance metrics of your news site stacks up.

A large header image reads "Being the Utility Man of Product Work" surrounded by different images of tasks done. On the first row, these images are: a news quiz, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution home page, and a wireframe mockup. On the second row, these images are: an Instagram story mock-up for a newsletter named "The Jolt", an Instagram story mock-up for an episode of "Braves Report", and a screenshot of a brand guidelines page.
September 26, 2022
Innovation

Being the utility man of product work

There is a lot to gain from getting to experiment in different spaces of product work on a team.

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