Tyler Childers' show opened with a video montage and a to-scale visual of a house projected behind the musicians.

I thought I’d finally make a thread about the audience engagement project I did with @THECITYNY in the fall, which was all about using physical media to promote their online service journalism. (featuring my presentation slides!) 🧵:

After months investigating the health + environmental hazards of garbage dumps on Jamaica residents w/ @MudrovaNikol and @maggiegeiler, change is finally coming:

For decades, Jamaica residents say they’ve dealt with stench & debris from unenclosed waste facilities nearby. A settlement reached last month could change that for the community, one of the three city neighborhoods most burdened by waste infrastructure

Russian forces have looted tens of thousands of Ukrainian artworks, in what experts say is the biggest art heist since the Nazis in World War II.

Their Eyes Were Watching God, manuscript Zora Neal Hurston Collection https://t.co/o3ooT08uE8

It's Sunday. The first one of 2023! Time to re-share my "templates" folder with y'all so you can organize your life and stop forgetting when you need an oil change or what the name of that really good recipe was.

New Job Alert! City Limits, an award-winning nonprofit newsroom that has covered New York City since 1976, is seeking a reporter and writer to join our team to cover NYCHA and all things public housing. #hiring https://t.co/RPPDYg9lkw

URGENT: This Black women’s mutual aid group is about to lose their space. The United Order of Tents dates back to 1848 & has ties to the Underground Railroad — it’s a part of Brooklyn’s history and we can’t let it be erased.

The city’s trailblazing program to provide free legal help to low-income tenants facing eviction has declined more than 10,000 cases since March 2022, as providers struggle to keep up. “There are people who are falling through the cracks.” https://t.co/A5wZfBRr8W

Calling all journalists! NPR has decided not to offer summer internships. There may be others that do the same. Students need this experience. Please post paid journalism #internships you may know about on this thread. Thank you. Plz RT #JournalismInternships #SummerInterns

As promised, here are Ten New Year’s Resolutions for Editors. They're resolutions you really can keep. Resolution for Editors No. 1: To read every word of a draft before making changes. (Yes, this is hard. But if time permits, a good practice.)

U.S. local newspapers are dying at a rate of 2 per week. By 2025, a third of them will be gone. If you’re not convinced that’s a doomsday-level threat to democracy, read this state-by-state list of what local reporters uncovered in 2022. It’s a sample of what we stand to lose.

NEW: At this school for children with disabilities, workers call police on students, on average, every other day. No school in the country does it more frequently. An investigation from @jsmithrichards and @Jodiscohen of @chicagotribune and @propublica. https://t.co/w3jpY1w2uH

In this piece, I'm trying to imagine a form of popular journalism that can cut across political and social divides. This means moving away from the mass audience model of the 20th century to a model of popular audiences as coalitions.

At a town hall, @politico just announced 150 new jobs in the next year - many of those in editorial. I know there’s been a lot of layoffs recently — please tell your reporter friends who’ve been laid off to keep an eye on politico’s jobs page!

My latest: there is a killer, or maybe more than one, stalking gay bars in NYC. At least 2 men were drugged, robbed using their phone’s facial recognition tech, and killed. More survived similar attacks, most recently on Nov 12. I spoke to 6 survivors.