Read about the Local News Lab’s process of narrowing down to one final data product idea from many — Workshop 4: Zooming in to the ideas that sparked Building on our previous workshop, in which we looked at the machine learning technology the lab already built for content recommendations to see if it sparked any ideas, we met subsequently to zoom into each of the seven ideas that had surfaced in order to narrow down to three ideas…

Read about the Local News Lab’s first three out of seven product discovery workshops along the path to our cohort-based data product — Following our formal project kick-off meeting, we started our product discovery process which spanned seven workshops altogether. However, before digging into the meat of each workshop, we led the group through our reflections from the previous session. …

How we ran a productive, collaborative, and engaging first meeting and started our project on the right foot — A good kick-off meeting can help break the ice between collaborators and create a rapport between teammates. In this post, I share how we ran our virtual kick-off meeting with our second cohort of newsroom partners and formed some essential pillars for the project that we have revisited repeatedly throughout…

Documenting the pre-kick-off phase of our 2022 cohort project — It was a busy summer at the lab and it feels like we have already been through several seasons: we wound down our first cohort, had some staffing changes, cleaned up technical debt and prepared for our second cohort. …

This time with four newsroom partners spanning the U.S. — The Local News Lab at Columbia Journalism School is thrilled to announce our second cohort of newsroom partners for our project to develop tools to promote sustainability of local news organizations: AfroLA, Dallas Free Press, Open Vallejo, and The 19th*. …

At Brown’s Local News Lab we are using Machine Learning to “optimize the ask” — Hello from the Local News Lab at The Brown Institute! Since our last post, we have been busy connecting with a wide variety of newsrooms from the west side of Manhattan to Harare, Zimbabwe. …

At Brown’s Local News Lab we are using Machine Learning to “optimize the ask” — Hello from the Local News Lab at The Brown Institute! Since our last post, we have been busy connecting with a wide variety of newsrooms from the west side of Manhattan to Harare, Zimbabwe. …