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Spending a month building coding skills gave me the language—and confidence—for better communication across teams ⭐This post was originally published on OpenNews' SOURCE blog on September 3, 2024. A few months ago, I wrote in SOURCE about learning to work with development teams and software vendors as
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Well, technically, I had been for a while, after publishing one once in the arts and culture magazine I edited in college. But something super cool happened this summer: Rescue Party: A Graphic Anthology of Covid Lockdown was released by Pantheon Graphic Library at Penguin Random House, and the first-
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Rahul Mukherjee and I hosted an early career panel at SRCCON 2024 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We had four amazing panelists, Lena Han, Emily Hood, Joe Rull, and Aditi Mukund, who shared with us their experiences entering and starting career paths in journalism product, technology, and design roles. We talked about
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Tiny News Collective aims to build a metrics dashboard for members to help them track what matters most ⭐This post was originally published on Tiny News Collective's blog on July 22, 2024. By Madison Karas and Pilar de Haro The explosive growth in small, independent news organizations is
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How do you balance clear communication, changing needs, decisions that predate you—in the midst of a million support tickets? ⭐This post was originally published on OpenNews' SOURCE blog on Sept. 19, 2023. By Madison Karas This year has been my first as a product manager in a newsroom,
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⭐This post was originally published on Resolve Philly's Medium on Sep. 6, 2022. By Madison Karas, 2022 Resolve Philly Fellow A year ago, I started with a blank slate as Resolve Philly’s inaugural fellow. To kick off the year-long, part-time fellowship program, I chose a
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⭐This post was originally published on Resolve Philly's Medium on Aug. 17, 2021. By Amelia Winger, Madison Karas and Eugene Sonn Collaborative reporting doesn’t always feel instinctive. Especially in a university environment where the student media organizations are isolated in different buildings across campus with little history
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Maybe we won't grieve what we lost as much as we thought We'll see it as the time we were stripped... When we had to decide, prioritize, regress & revitalize Where the invitations & apologies, expansions & retractions, haste & delay, all seamlessly made sense together.