Tag: Outlier Media
Building a sponsored content program with intentionality and trust
Erica Schopmeyer, director of operations at Outlier Media, recently wrapped up a fellowship with Poynter’s Media Transformation Challenge where she focused on growing Outlier’s sponsored content program. Outlier had a couple sponsored content agreements when Schopmeyer joined, but she wanted to help grow this revenue stream to offset the organization’s reliance on grants and improve … Continued
Create a community resource hub using a free interactive tool
From food assistance to translation services, how Canopy Atlanta shares resources.
Building equitable freelance contracts
Maintaining copyright is key to photojournalists’ sustainability.
Why showing up is powerful
Let’s build a future where more productive civic engagement is a duty for newsrooms and an opportunity for our communities.
Newsrooms’ service roles need to be grounded in community relationships
Building trust in a community requires listening and unlearning: a discussion with Bevin Christie.
Creating an affordable text system for your community centered newsroom
SMS systems are often expensive, pay per a text plans can make it affordable.
Replacing the news
Action is urgent but we lack compelling visions for the news and information ecosystems our communities deserve.
Journalism innovation often skips the necessary because of a failure of perspective
Grid News and Punchbowl News. Two new national newsrooms launched during the pandemic. Both claim to be different takes on how to reinvent journalism in the U.S. But beyond being well resourced, it’s not yet clear how either of these newsrooms will be more innovative than their predecessors beyond attrition.
Who’s building my city? This local service journalism tool will help residents find answers
The Detroit Development Tracker will put data into the hands of those most affected.
Journalists must play a vital role in fixing America’s false economic narrative
From the Federal Reserve to the U.S. Economic Development Administration to the American Planning Association, pressure is mounting in policy and planning circles to address the economic consequences of structural racism. In an effort to reboot an economy still impacted by COVID-19, the inherited disparities of a pre-pandemic segregationist society have been laid bare across … Continued