We asked where journalism gatherings go wrong: Here’s what we heard
Responses from our conversation to develop a baseline for evaluating conference success.
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Plumia Fellowship
⭐This post was originally published on Plumia's website. Exploring what it means to build a country on the internet Over three months, the Plumia Fellowship supports visionary thinkers, artists, and researchers who are reimagining the foundations of digital civilisation. Fellows receive funding, mentorship, and global visibility as they
Service Desk
The Service Desk is Gazzetta's applied service design practice for civic media, led by Madison Karas and Patrick Boehler. Thanks to the support of The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, we have worked with dozens of newsrooms and independent creators across four continents to identify concrete service and revenue
Product Notes: Noticias Para Inmigrantes's lean approach to WhatsApp experimentation
How NPI built a highly engaged WhatsApp channel with a limited team and analytics
OpenNews: Our gatherings could be so much better
We say we welcome innovation, but our spaces preserve power
Service Desk: Moving journalism from content creation to concrete outcomes
How we're growing The Service Desk this year
Lenfest Institute: Service-oriented journalism: Moving from idealism to utility
Insights from conversations with over 70 journalists, funders, and audience experts
Product Notes: How and when to integrate product into news organizations
Lessons from introducing new product teams to publishers
New_Public: 🗣️➡️👯♀️ Come for the language skills, stay for the friendship
Exploring peer-driven language-learning apps like HelloTalk, Tandem and Italki
Product Notes: Transitioning between news product and tech roles
I spoke with three NPA community members who have transitioned in and out of product roles within journalism and other industries to find out what they’ve noticed in both environments and what advice they’d give others considering a transition.
Lenfest Institute: Start with service: A practical reset for media impact
Reflections from the Lenfest News Philanthropy Summit
Product Notes: How to create opportunities for career growth in news product
As news organizations begin to incorporate product practices, support for professional development still isn’t always available. This means emerging product talent must often create their own growth opportunities.
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Hacks/Hackers AI x Journalism Summit Takeaways
Many of the conversations I heard shifted from "what ifs" to "what can" and "what mights," which I found refreshing in contrast to the vendor fatigue and AI slop we've all been navigating the past couple of years.
Just for Fun
A very cute wedding newspaper tabloid for my good friends
I edited, designed and produced a print wedding newspaper for my friends' wedding in Philadelphia, which added to vintage-ness of the event's theme.
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TNC: Helping small news, indie publishers track growth and impact together is vital for journalism
Earlier last year, Tiny News Collective announced the development of a data and metrics program, now called Tiny Vitals Metrics Lab, for early-stage news publishers.
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A corner store sign and my thoughts on simple, ongoing newsroom user research
Scrappy media orgs can experiment with clear, easy ways to prompt audience feedback as a lo-fi strategy for surfacing reader needs
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Editor & Publisher: No one-size-fits-all: New study offers real ad solutions for tiny newsrooms
The authors of an in-depth study hope their research spawns more conversations and solutions for pocket-sized publishers nationwide.
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Personalized News Communication and Media Trust in the Modern Era
I was recently quoted in Dr. Kirsten Johnson and Dr. Burton St. John III's newly published book, Personalized News Communication and Media Trust in the Modern Era.
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TNC: Measuring Impact at UNC's Local Journalism Researchers Workshop
Alongside Nora Hertel of Project Optimist, I had the opportunity to present on the Newsroom Impact Measurement panel, sharing Tiny News Collective's early learnings from piloting our data and metrics program.
Just for Fun
Retro Rewind Vintage & Thrift Newsletters
In the year and a half that I worked at Retro Rewind Vintage & Thrift boutique in Brewerytown, Philadelphia, I authored its seasonal newsletter. Here's some of our highlights! Login • InstagramWelcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing
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TNC: What we learned about the advertising needs of small publishers
In collaboration with Rebuild Local News, Tiny News Collective examined the practices indie news publishers use to build advertising revenue. 🌟This post was originally published on Tiny News Collective's website on Jan. 23, 2025. Small publishers can earn revenue from advertising sales in ways that reflect their community
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Art + Politics Community Conversation — Nov 6, 2024
Join us for a day of open office hours and community conversation focused on the intersection of art, politics, and journalism. From 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM, we invite you to drop in, work, and connect with others in a relaxed environment. The highlight of the day will
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OpenNews: Product manager diary: What I learned taking an intro course in web development
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
Just for Fun
I'm a published comic artist now!
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-