I’m psyched to be a returning judge for LION Publishers ‘24 Sustainability Awards! LION members: submit your entries by 4/22!  lionpublishers.com/awards/

So happy to learn I've been selected as a returning judge for LION Publishers '24 Sustainability Awards!
Fingers crossed I get paired w/ Kakie Urch & Max Resnik again.

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🔴 SAVE THE DATE!
'We built a civic army. Now what?'
#ijf24 with
Lynelle Herndon
noah kincade
Sonam Vashi 
🎥Live & On Demand > on Fri, Apr 19th
journalismfestival.com/programme/2024…

Our Detroit Documenters team (including our own Lynelle and noah kincade) are heading across the Atlantic to discuss the civic army we’re building in Detroit ✈️

Raise your hand if you’re ready to hear from them 🙌🏽🙌🏽

Classics…collectibles 🤪

😍Where can we get a pair?!

I absolutely love reading these profiles. These are the people in our neighborhood!

For the past year I've been writing short profiles on Detroit Documenters, and it’s been so fun to learn more about their experiences and why they value documenting public meetings. 🧵

Beautiful work of documenting the community and purpose of Documenters by Lynelle

Honored to be nominated with tru_trill Invisible Institute City Bureau for this year's Driehaus Award for Investigative Reporting.

Sometimes documenting meetings that DON'T happen is just as important. ⤵️

Spring into The Spark🌟In this issue, read about:
👩 Christina Valdois, our Director of Accounting
🎭 The Wichita Foundation Amphitheater
📰 Three newsroom partners delivering stories to underserved communities
📝 Wichita Documenters
...and more ⬇️
bit.ly/WFNewsInsights

Everyone say hiiii to our fresh new Documenters🤩🤩🤩

We’re proud to introduce the first in a series of civic guides written by Detroit Documenters. Read our Civic Guide: Detroit budget 101 to understand how the city budget works and how you can get involved.
This week in Documenters:
outliermedia.org/detroit-city-b…

So so excited to be part of this new workshop series from the Pulitzer Center about AI: over the next 2 years we will train 1,000 reporters and editors on AI. Workshops are free and largely online!

Signal Akron reporters, editors and Documenters were out around the city to see the sights of the total solar eclipse. See what it was like. go.signalakron.org/3JbRQR4

💼 #Hiring ! We're searching for a community-builder w/ project management & comms skills.

Help us grow a national participatory media network as our Documenters Network Coordinator!
💰$57,500 & benefits
📍 Remote
📷 Apply by April 21
citybureau.org/documenters-ne…

Four Detroit Board of Police Commissioners missed at least six of the first 12 full board meetings this year. An Outlier Media analysis found that Commissioner Jesus Hernandez missed seven meetings. Three other commissioners each missed six.

BOPC Watch:
outliermedia.org/detroit-police…

We asked a recently trained Documenter why keeping their community informed matters to them. @Engmac18 responded with the simple truth: you can’t hold those in power accountable if you don’t know what’s going on. Take after Engelberto and become a Documenter today!

We have only 20 tickets left for the 2024 Collaborative Journalism Summit 😳 May 9-10 in Detroit. Grab your ticket before they are gone! eventbrite.com/e/2024-collabo…