Really enjoyed teaching "Transforming audience research into actionable insights" for News Product Alliance's new News Product Management Certificate program!

I'm excited to launch this new LAist series about young parents in L.A. struggling to find affordable housing big enough for kids. Buying is out of reach for many. Increasingly, so is renting. Is leaving L.A. the only option? laist.com/news/housing-h…

Table Stakes alumni: Join an exclusive lightning talk on April 18 at 1 pm ET to learn about products for voters and local audiences. Featuring LAist's Ariel Zirulnick, Enlace Latino NC' Nicolás Baintrub & Spotlight PA's Elizabeth Estrada. Register now: eventbrite.com/e/872634532377

If you have been meaning to support L.A. TACO🌴🌮, but haven't gotten around to it, now is the time. This has been a dire year for L.A. media and this big, messy, beautiful city needs as many independent media outlets as possible.

A little more than a week left to apply for Newmark J-School's Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership! I'm a 2023 alum. It was a gift to have 9 whole months to learn about every facet of being a media exec & the instructors are excellent. journalism.cuny.edu/j-plus/executi…

If you care about the future of journalism, please consider joining me in supporting News Product Alliance. Grateful for their work training, connecting and supporting the next leaders in digital news … givebutter.com/npa-sustainers…

The News Product Alliance forum convened about 100 product thinkers who contributed to some of the most important discussions about news, and I was grateful to be there. ✨

End of an era. The New Tropic sent its final newsletter this week. I'll forever be grateful for how working there changed how I think about journalism & the sense of place & agency it can inspire.

I was one of the people laid off from LAist yesterday. I didn’t take the buyout bc I was excited about some of the things I had in the works. I’m sad I won’t get to finish them, but I’m really proud of the work I did there and grateful for my colleagues and all I learned.

so disappointed to see this news. Ariel is truly one of the best people I've had the privilege to work with and learn from in my career. anyone would be lucky to have her join their team!!

Ariel did so much to focus my stories through research-backed lenses called modes. LAist stories are stronger because of the work she did. The takeaway: please keep supporting public media ✊🏽🎙️

Any successes I've been a part of in the last 2.5 years were because of Ariel's leadership & creative thinking. I learned so much working with her and the organization has benefited so much. So devastated by this loss for us (and envious of whoever is able to work with her next)

I was lucky enough to work with Ariel for a spell before she moved to LA, and I am incredibly envious of whoever hires her next. We almost all could use the smarts, structure, and spirit of inquiry that she brings to thinking about audience relationships, product and journalism.

Why are we allowing public officials to be unnamed in stories such as this? What is journalistically useful about publishing an anonymously sourced, non-essential, gossipy story? How does this help our already strained credibility? The journalistic ethics I was taught said we

What a team! I loved getting to know my new city through this wonderful pod.

limited run newsletters are a GREAT way to engage your audience and I think newsrooms should be doing more of them! They can be timely, which increases the likelihood of people subscribing and can also turn casual readers into loyalists (and even into donors/members!)

Laying people off is hard, but this attempt to be “cute” and “on brand” about people’s livelihoods shows a lack of emotional maturity and tact that should become an example for what not to do. The brand book can be abandoned for empathy.

We’ve focused so much on evaluation at the Guardian in our experiments, especially because of risk and subjectivity of output. Building frameworks that capture the right metrics & finding expert time to evaluate are real challenges

Join me Thurs at #ONA24 for a convo on AI, authenticity, copyright, new efficiencies & creative exploration... in hip-hop & filmmaking! We're bringing together four ATL creatives to the Hyatt to talk about all of this & more. Excited for an hr when we can think beyond journalism!