Seeds of Innovation 2025 Virtual conference
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Don't Overthink It: How to Pull Off Engaging IRL Podcast EventsIt’s never been more important to engage with your audience outside of the content you’re producing, but what if you could do it without reinventing the wheel? KCUR Studios’ podcast, A People’s History of Kansas City, has been quickly adapting their podcast scripts into engaging events to great success. Presenter: Mackenzie Martin, KCUR |
March 20, 20251 p.m. ET
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Using Marshall Project Datasets and Reporting Tools for Your Criminal Justice StoriesThe Marshall Project has been sharing its national datasets and other reporting tools with local journalists to jumpstart valuable criminal justice coverage. We aim to save local newsrooms time and resources by offering data trends, story ideas, and sourcing leads for them to build upon with their local expertise. TMP’s story toolkits include free illustrations and embeddable graphics that can be customized to show county and state-level trends. In this session, we’ll explain how to interpret the data and use it to fuel local investigations. Accessing this data will allow local journalists to hold power to account and shine a light on a criminal justice system that affects over one hundred million people in the US. The Marshall Project can delve into topics such as correctional officer shortages, deaths in custody, book bans behind bars, and FBI crime statistics. If PMJA would prefer to apply a wider lens to this session, we would be happy to invite panelists from other organizations that are also sharing their investigative resources. We recently hosted a panel for IRE’s AccessFest24 with The Trace, which has launched a Gun Violence Data Hub, and the AP, which frequently shares its national datasets. Presenter: Michelle Billman, The Marshall Project |
April 3, 20251 p.m. ET
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Think Like a News EntrepreneurMost of our newsrooms could use another person or two to supplement what we do, but the money is not in the budget to hire anyone. Where do we find extra resources? Where should we be looking and how should we be thinking when it comes to adding people or equipment? Where are the potential challenges? We'll bring in a speaker or two and ask our audience to share their experiences with outside support for local newsrooms. Presenter: Doug Nadvornick, Spokane Public Radio |
April 17, 20251 p.m. ET
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Finding Good Audio for Investigative StoriesInvestigative journalism doesn't always have good audio options for its broadcast component. The reporting can inherently be document and data heavy. And when it comes to the audio feature, anything used has to be economic because it's impossible to squeeze a 3,000-word digital piece into a four-minute segment. This session will cover tips and tricks on creating a good audio story to accompany the reporting that may be heavy in records or numbers and lacking in audio-rich scenes. That way, you can always have an answer when your editor asks: "What audio do you have?" Presenter: Kris Husted, KCUR |
May 1, 20251 p.m. ET
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How to Adapt a Story for Broader AudiencesDo you have a story you think is of interest beyond your local community – or should be? We’ll talk about ways that framing, sourcing and reporting can make your story relevant for audiences locally, regionally and nationally. Presenters: TBD |
May 15, 20251 p.m. ET
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