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Your place in engagement journalism: a conversation with Sue Robinson

Sebastián Auyanet, Sue Robinson | January 2024

In this Lightning Chat, Sebastián Auyanet hosted a conversation with Sue Robinson about the four emergent roles she sees for journalists in the future: relationship builder, community collaborator, conversation facilitator and professional network builder.

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People Before Problems: Building Trust To Tell A Community’s Story

Ideastream | April 2021

Embarking on a two-year project to cover a public housing neighborhood on the verge of a rebuild, WCPN reporter Justin Glanville and editor Mike McIntyre wanted to avoid reinforcing stereotypes and tropes of both Black and low-income communities. Justin and Laura Fillbach share some lessons learned from his reporting and the resulting podcast “Inside the Bricks: Woodhill Homes.”

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Behind the scenes of a high impact project on anti-Asian hate

Kristine Lois Villanueva | February 2021

Kristine Lois Villanueva knew she wanted to create a project examining the rise in COVID-19 related anti-Asian hate from a national perspective, but finding ways to bring in engagement was a constantly moving target. Join this chat to learn about how Kristine made strategic decisions when challenges arose, and how the project was cited in legislation from the local to national levels. 

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In Conversation with Andrea Wenzel & her book

Andrea Wenzel | February 2021

In this slightly different Lightning Chat, Andrew DeVigal talked with Andrea Wenzel about her book “Community-Centered Journalism: Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust.” In the book, Andrea “models new practices of community-centered journalism that build trust across boundaries of politics, race, and class, and prioritize solutions while engaging the full range of local stakeholders.”

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Three tools for journalists to explore systems change

Cole Goins, Journalism+Design, Kayla Christopherson, The Baltimore Sun, Yvonne Wenger | October 2020

Kayla Christopherson and Cole Goins (The New School’s Journalism + Design program) guide us through three powerful exercises from their systems thinking toolkit, and Yvonne Wenger of the Baltimore Sun shares a practical take on how each exercise deepened her reporting process.

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2020 OJA Finalists: Reckon Women and Southern California Public Radio

Adriana García, Alabama Media Group, Ashley Alvarado, Caitlin Hernandez, Giuliana Mayo, KPCC, KPCC-LAist, Rebecca Walker Benjamin, Southern California Public Radio | October 2020

Learn about Southern California Public Radio’s engaged journalism work and Alabama Media Group’s project “Reckon Women: Motherhood.” Both are finalists for the 2020 OJA Gather Award in the Overall Excellence category.

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Self-care for Engaged Journalists

Chaseedaw Giles, Kaiser Health News, Melissa Daniels, The Desert Sun | October 2019

Let’s talk about how to take care of ourselves while balancing a job that’s constantly demanding more, an audience that has plenty to say and a news cycle that won’t stop. Chaseedaw Giles of Kaiser Health News and Melissa Daniels of The Desert Sun will bring tips from their ONA session to this lightning chat.

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OJA Finalists (USA TODAY Florida and Vox)

Eve Samples, Lauren Katz, Leah Voss, USA Today, Vox Media | September 2019

Join this special hour-long chat with two finalists in the first-ever ONA Gather Award for Engaged Journalism! We’ve got Eve Samples and Leah Voss from USA TODAY Florida to talk about their nominated project, “Florida Voices,” and Lauren Katz will share more about Vox’s nominated project, “Hospitals Kept ER Fees Secret. We Worked with Patients to Uncover Them.”

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OJA Finalists (City Bureau + Bureau Local)

Bureau Local, City Bureau, Darryl Holliday, Megan Lucero | September 2019

Join this special hour-long chat with two finalists in the first-ever ONA Gather Award for Engaged Journalism! Darryl Holliday will talk about City Bureau’s nominated project, and Megan Lucero will share more about Bureau Local’s engagement work nominated under the “Portfolio” category.

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OJA Finalists (SCPR + WITF)

Ashley Alvarado, Cara Williams Fry, Lisa Wardle, PA Post, SCPR, WITF | August 2019

Join this special hour-long chat with two finalists in the first-ever ONA Gather Award for Engaged Journalism! Ashley Alvarado will talk about Southern California Public Radio’s engagement work nominated under the “Portfolio” category, and Cara Williams Fry and Lisa Wardle will dive into WITF’s nominated project, “Three Mile Island Accident’s 40th Anniversary.”

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Engagement Workflow

Arizona Republic, Emma Carew Grovum, Kim Bui | August 2019

What are the biggest challenges specific to engagement work — both for internal communication on an engagement team and for communication with the rest of the organization? What about engagement work and about audience + community relationships and interactions most need to be communicated? What tools and strategies are helpful? Join Kim Bui and Emma Carew Grovum to find out.

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Using Comments to Tell the Story of Journalism

Joy Mayer, Trusting News | July 2018

We need to change the conversation about journalism, and engaged journalists are on the front lines of public opinion. In the wake of Annapolis, let’s workshop ways to use engagement strategies to stand up for journalism. How can we answer comments from complainers and haters? Join Joy Mayer to continue the discussion. 

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