Public-powered Journalism
Learn how sharing the mic and megaphone can expand your beat, your stories, and your craft.
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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
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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.
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Logan Jaffe (@loganjaffe) is WBEZ Curious City’s multimedia producer.
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Shawn Allee (@shawnallee) edits whatever WBEZ's Curious City series' contributors dream up.