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I'm excited to launch this new LAist series about young parents in L.A. struggling to find affordable housing big enough for kids.

Buying is out of reach for many. Increasingly, so is renting. Is leaving L.A. the only option?

laist.com/news/housing-h…

Really enjoyed teaching 'Transforming audience research into actionable insights' for News Product Alliance's new News Product Management Certificate program!

I got a campaign text today asking me if I knew about the importance of judicial elections — and little did they know I helped write whole guides about it.

LAist’s voter game plan launched today. Read our judges guide and get other down-ballot help here: laist.com/news/politics/…

People in journalism (or outside) who want to understand the impact journalism has should not stop at research on how journalism helps people be e.g. more informed.

Should also reckon w/research documenting dehumanizing, harmful coverage, of which these are just two examples 1/5

🔗: laist.com/news/criminal-…

It's time for civics, y'all. The city is looking for a new police chief. Here's a breakdown of how the process works, what the job is — and importantly, how you can get involved.

Tracking the mayor's promise to get homelessness under control. By Ariel Zirulnick. medium.com/engagement-at-…

This is so, so different from simply 'covering' the story when it generates news.

It seems inevitable to me that newsroom culture is going to come under high pressure in 2024 as an economic crisis in media and a political crisis in America conjoin. Here's my thread from five years ago about what professional culture in journalism is.

Survivors of the Monterey Park shooting marked a year since a gunman attacked their beloved ballroom dance studio with the most fitting remembrance they could think of: a joyous dance party.

These A-list mentors will work with the #NAHJLatinaLeadershipProgram cohort for the next 6 months, shaping their projects. Ariel Zirulnick Ashley Suh Alvarado (she/her) Feli Carrique Matthew Caruana Galizia Sely Colón #EmmaCarrasco Núria Net 💡

Delighted (& a little shocked) to find myself teaching alongside all these product folks whose work I've long admired. I'll be teaching a class on how to apply audience insights to product strategy. Grateful for the opportunity to bring that pt of my work to this stellar cohort!

While everyone is is blathering about AI and news, Semafor's gina chua spends her weekend making bots useful for journalism:
semafor.com/article/12/19/…

Love all of this from Sarah Marshall.

“Inboxes don’t need more newsletters, they need fewer that better respond to an audience need. Readers don’t ask for longer explanations, they want bullets and brevity.”

niemanlab.org/2023/12/for-au…

The LAist “Promise Tracker” framing does something interesting. It is a way of bridging election coverage to wider coverage.

What else might be possible in 2024? laist.com/news/housing-h…

Imagine: You're a young environmentalist. You go to a conference on sustainability. You see: coffee served in styrofoam cups with plastic stir sticks. Lunch served on styrofoam plates. You decide something has to change. The latest from Julia Barajas: laist.com/news/education…

Thing about this is that it’s never been suspected - just known. Referral traffic well understood. Think a lot of the thinking in general right now is less about page views and more about whether removing reliable journalism from an increasingly unreliable platform is a good move

Are you a Minneapolis-based journalist, or someone going to SRCCON?

Come to our next FREE Perspectives event, taking place on Monday October 16th (the night before Srccon).

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If you work in journalism and will be in Minneapolis on Oct. 16 (👋 OpenNews SRCCON attendees!), join me & Andrew Losowsky for a Perspectives discussion on how communities recover from traumatic events. It's a strong lineup at an iconic MPLS spot, & it's free! eventbrite.com/e/accountabili…

This is a big deal, for me and the English language public media company I work for. The first Spanish language audio features produced in house LAist First story here, second in thread laist.com/news/education…

lol I have two notifications in the new Slack design and I can't figure out where the hell the messages are, I can't tell if I'm just old or if there was no user testing