Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

Exciting stuff - we're so lucky to continually learn from our partners @19thnews! New metrics to better reflect how journalism connects with and serves audiences are a needed innovation.

[Emily Ramshaw @eramshaw]

At @19thnews, we got tired of others dictating what metrics should matter to us.

So we created our own.

Enter: Total Journalism Reach!

https://t.co/e5U0FeB7bV

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

This is such great news for local news and democracy! Congratulations to all grantees!

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

We are so excited and grateful to the @knightfdn for its support!

[Mark Hansen @cocteau]

Today the @knightfdn and several other philanthropic organizations announced Press Forward! Amazing opportunities for local news!

In Knight’s announcement was mention of a grant to @BrownInstitute’s Local News Lab for a pivot to a kind of venture. Yay!

https://t.co/LAOuar6a7s

[Mark Hansen @cocteau]

Today the @knightfdn and several other philanthropic organizations announced Press Forward! Amazing opportunities for local news!

In Knight’s announcement was mention of a grant to @BrownInstitute’s Local News Lab for a pivot to a kind of venture. Yay!

https://t.co/LAOuar6a7s

[Knight Foundation @knightfdn]

Local newspaper closures have led to fading civic engagement, eroding social bonds, surging misinformation, & dwindling government accountability. Today, 20+ funders, including @KnightFdn, are launching #PressFWD, a national fund to revitalize local news. (1/4)

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

...and finally, read about how the lab closed our product discovery process, defined our product and generated some hypotheses for how an automated “ask” might increase audience engagement. https://t.co/lV1n4RnqTs Curious to know more? Please ask! cc @newsproduct

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

More on our product discovery process: how we narrowed down from many product directions to one (by using questions, values and more). Plus: The Big Reveal..."automating the ask"! https://t.co/gnvE6yX7BC cc @newsproduct

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

Our latest post: how we started our product discovery process with digging into our partners' understanding of their audiences, data in general, and how we might use our existing work to create a useful data product for smaller news orgs. https://t.co/pPh1sl3IzT

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

Use this question generator to find "check-in" and "check-out" questions that help build rapport and connection https://t.co/BCeYNMq4wX

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

Our recipe for how we ran a productive, collaborative, and engaging kick-off meeting and started our project on the right foot. We hope it's useful for others so we're sharing it here. Let us know what you think! Here are some tips 👇 https://t.co/9Fi1uG3iHc

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

Always leave room for impromptu adjustments if you follow a tangent or an exercise falls flat

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

It was a busy summer at the lab. We're taking the time to document our processes -- starting with this post about how we recruited our current cohort of newsroom partners 👉 https://t.co/HFUgpFjSY2

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

The Local News Lab is proud to announce our new cohort! Four incredible news organizations that we're so honored to call partners: @OpenVallejo @dallasfreepress @The19thNews and to-be-launched AfroLA. Keep an eye out here for developments on our project! https://t.co/cVfA3IwLWd

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

Fantastic opportunity 👉🏽 US local newsrooms that would like to expand tech capabilities, pitch your automation or #AI project to @AP by June 17: https://t.co/LnNQeprAkx

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

🚨Deadline to apply to our second cohort is almost here - today at 5pm ET! Apply now to collaborate with the lab and 2 other newsrooms https://t.co/TMrl8QQFCB + if you'd like to know more about our first project, you can read about it in our latest post https://t.co/zih8fNFiR4

[The Brown Institute @BrownInstitute]

The Local News Lab at the Brown Institute has extended its deadline for a collaborative AI project involving local or community-based newsrooms. You get five more days! DM us with questions!

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

We’re very excited that Trib editors + reporters will no longer have to spend so much time manually picking story recommendations. Should be a huge productivity gain for our entire editorial operation’
👉🏼 If this sounds interesting, apply (it's easy!) ✨https://t.co/TMrl8QQFCB✨

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

📢 DEADLINE EXTENDED to Friday, May 6 at 5 p.m. ET.
📰 Do you work at a local or community-based newsroom?
💻 Do you want to collaborate on a product aimed at improving audience engagement and/or revenue?
💡 Want to learn about data products + analytics?
https://t.co/TMrl8QQFCB

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

🚨 Exciting opportunity!🚨We are thrilled to announce the opening of applications for our next cohort project starting in June. Are you looking to optimize reader engagement? Are you interested in experimentation? https://t.co/TMrl8QQFCB #LocalNews

[Local News Lab @ The Brown Institute @LocalAtBrown]

📝 We hope you apply to take part in our next cohort!
Just read what one of our partners, @Daniel_SR had to say about our first cohort: ‘We want to thank you again for all [that the lab] put into this project + all the assistance you provided through the A/B tests.