What I'm creating now.
A look at my projects, my ideas, what I'm working and thinking about now.
Helping under-resourced newsrooms learn product thinkingIn collaboration with Listening Post Collective......
An AI toolkit for consultantsA work in progress, but I have been taking my own AI workflows and documents and trying to put together something to share with my clients, friends and other consultants to be transparent about my own AI use and hopefully share some systems that might work for other people.
This has become heavy on privacy and boundaries.
Thinking: How newsrooms grow and age, and what barriers are commonI've been pondering about the idea of toddler and teenager newsrooms.
Loose idea:
* Newsrooms face a barrier to launch because of funder resources.
* Toddler newsrooms feel growing pains the small and terrible ways. A health emergency might throw it all out the window. Life is more precarious at this stage.
* Teenager newsrooms probably have the journalism part down, but now are the real growing pains. Can you operate the same way you did when you were a staff of 4, but are now at 45? Culture, strategy and sustainability seems to be the barriers here.
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Yearly Goal Planning WorkbookSince late 2020, I've made a goal planning workbook. It started off loosely based off the YearCompass, it's become one of my favorite rituals to close out the year.
This is one of many resources I've built that started off as something for me, but have become important to people across and beyond journalism.
Archive
Sincerely Leaders of Color
Sincerely, Leaders of Color was a column centered around diversity, equity and inclusion in newsroom leadership. It was written in partnership with Emma Carew Grovum and published via Source.
The Middles
The Middles was a newsletter for leaders who somehow ended up there – young middle managers, horizontal managers and project-specific management. We’re not sure how to “do it all” right now. We’re still figuring it out.
No one prepared us for these roles. No one gave us a playbook. Likely, no one had our jobs before. We’re different. We’re misfits. We’re beyond an age or a generation, but we share a mentality – we believe in leading with empathy, clarity and transparency.