New_Public: 🗣️➡️👯‍♀️ Come for the language skills, stay for the friendship
Exploring peer-driven language-learning apps like HelloTalk, Tandem and Italki
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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
At the Lenfest News Philanthropy Summit, Patrick Boehler and I led a session exploring journalism’s ongoing struggle to articulate and measure its value, and how this is affecting our relationships with everyone we interact with — from funders to collaborators to our audiences.
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.
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.
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