Public-powered Journalism

Learn how sharing the mic and megaphone can expand your beat, your stories, and your craft.

Learn how sharing the mic and megaphone can expand your beat, your stories, and your craft.

Curious City, a public-powered reporting project housed at WBEZ, takes its storytelling orders from the public, inviting these "outsiders" to direct, shape and collaborate on stories from the get-go. In this session, the team of Jenn Brandel, Shawn Allee, and Logan Jaffe demonstrate ways to incorporate listener collaboration into your own work.

Find the answers to more Curious questions - and pose your own! - in EXTRA.

Featuring

Jennifer Brandel (@JenniferBrandel) is the CEO of Hearken, an audience-driven framework and platform enabling journalists to partner with the public throughout the reporting process.

Logan Jaffe (@loganjaffe) is WBEZ Curious City’s multimedia producer.

Shawn Allee (@shawnallee) edits whatever WBEZ's Curious City series' contributors dream up.