Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer

Product & UX team @PhillyInquirer exploring and sharing publicly how innovation work can be adopted in local news business and culture. Est. 2018 @lenfestinst.

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

Happening in 15 mins! Maybe we'll see you there :)

[Sarah (Schmalbach) Beck @schmalie]

📍Join us in an hour to talk about how we've mapped locations in news stories to help identify gaps in community coverage.

Thank you @ONAConf and the #ONA21 community for the chance to chat and learn today!

https://t.co/cvIxaNOWzf

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

Many thanks to our colleague @ylichterman for including this, and another post about our project in last week's Solution Set, an excellent news innovation newsletter.

The edition is here: https://t.co/Loksk5Dd5M

Sign up for Solution Set on this page: https://t.co/F9IW3a1SoR

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

For a year newsrooms have been adapting to news needs around the pandemic and civil unrest.

Here @lenfestlab UX designer @FayeTeng3 shares how we've approached those adjustments from a research and design perspective for our neighborhood newsletters.

https://t.co/ttbUXur1iW

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

To adapt, we re-send our resident survey with a few new questions, including new ways people were spending their time in the neighborhood and how they're supporting themselves and others, and then made changes in the product.

What have you asked your readers to share lately?

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

👏The project is supported by @GoogleNewsInit #GNIChallenge and is a collaborative experiment exploring ways publishers could launch many hyperlocal newsletters by curating, automating, collaborating and monetizing at a neighborhood level.

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

Interested in hyperlocal newsletters? @lenfestlab's @_kellybrennan shares the 8 steps our team took—from choosing a neighborhood, a name and gathering sources—before launching a weekly newsletter to the residents of a Philadelphia neighborhood, Fishtown.

https://t.co/pHEiZ39I9o

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

While you’re here and interested in neighborhood news, check out @digitalamysw's amazing Spatial Journalism newsletter where @_kellybrennan’s story was featured recently ➡️

https://t.co/LoXua326O0

Sign up here: https://t.co/IXSguRwlA7

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

Thanks to our friends @NKCDC for sharing this survey!

We're asking West Kensington and Fairhill residents to complete a quick online survey about what they'd like to see in a neighborhood newsletter.

The information we curate should be grounded in what residents say they need!

[NKCDC @NKCDC]

West #Kensington and #Fairhill neighbors: Your responses to this brief survey will shape a neighborhood newsletter for West Kensington and Fairhill from @LenfestInstitute for Journalism. Thank you for your feedback! →https://t.co/GOmfnvQIt7

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

Exciting news!

We're joining @PhillyInquirer as a way to learn how experimentation and innovation can be further integrated into local news business and culture.

Yes, we'll keep sharing insights & code publicly!

More from @schmalie & @MattBoggie here➡️
https://t.co/4mTUfBNM1a

[INNOVATION Media @INNO_media_]

The @lenfestinst, @BrownInstitute and @PhillyInquirer are building open-source content audit tools for local newsrooms:

https://t.co/2FiY67PFfa

#innovationinlocalnews #2020mediasolutions #opensource #localmediainnovation

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

Thank you!

[BMSG @BMSG]

This is *very cool* news from @lenfestlab!

"...newsrooms who use these auditing tools can...understand how communities are reflected in their coverage by examining how editorial decisions manifest themselves in language, location, sources and visuals..."

https://t.co/eNbFexEJdI

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

Thanks Peri!

[Peri Strathearn @PeriStrathearn]

Here's a super interesting project by @lenfestlab & @BrownInstitute: creating an automated system for auditing news content. They've used machine learning to locate stories geographically, but hope to analyse source diversity & image use. https://t.co/vqCmdRzeI2

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

Thank you for the space and opportunity to do this work @lenfestinst!

[The Lenfest Institute for Journalism @lenfestinst]

Big news: @lenfestlab, @BrownInstitute, and @PhillyInquirer are partnering to build open-source tools to lower the cost and expand the scope of newsroom content audits with support from @GoogleNewsInit #GNIChallenge https://t.co/q8X8w5JAn3

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

We're grateful to share that @lenfestlab, @BrownInstitute and @PhillyInquirer are expanding our partnership. With support from @GoogleNewsInit #GNIChallenge we'll build open-source content audit tools to help improve equity and representation in coverage.

https://t.co/3fhvfpwjVX

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

Thanks @axios for designing a newsletter sign-up page where you can subscribe to more than one! A #COVID19 coverage experiment we're launching in 2021 will benefit from it. More details here when it's live.

https://t.co/68BMFV7zne

h/t @_kellybrennan for sharing it with the team

[Sarah (Schmalbach) Beck @schmalie]

Good morning #ONA20 !

Ever wonder broadly what neighborhoods and communities your newsroom writes about most often, or not enough?

Tune in to @lenfestlab's @amendezpty and Michael Krisch from @BrownInstitute talk about how we made it possible with automation and mapping tools.

[Sarah (Schmalbach) Beck @schmalie]

Always grateful to be in @digitalamysw's #spatialjournalism newsletter. Her description of The Hook is 🙌!

"[It] goes beyond the typical fare of what one might expect from a newsy newsletter and instead focuses on the spaces and places in the community where news may arise."

[amy schmitz weiss @digitalamysw]

The latest Spatial Journalism Newsletter is out! This issue features: new approaches in photogrammetry by @NYTimes, a hyperlocal news launch w/ @LenFestlab @PhillyInquirer, & latest VR/spatial research.
https://t.co/Nz0LqxZPRh
#spatialjournalism #virtualreality #photogrammetry

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

Thanks for following these announcements and again, stay tuned for a big update on our neighborhood newsletter project coming tomorrow. We’re excited to share the news! /15

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

Hi folks. We’ve been hard at work on our latest project (details coming very soon!) but wanted to share a few announcements before going into the big week ahead /1

[Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer @lenfestlab]

We are grateful for her expertise in philanthropy, journalism, research & innovation as well as another notable contribution: setting up the #babies Slack channel where delightful dog, cat, drink & actual baby photos are shared to brighten our days as we navigate remote work. /14