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Well it’s been an interesting couple of weeks. Two big things happened: I gave a high stakes speech and I took a new job. I delivered a TED Talk last Saturday at TEDx Warrenton about the nonprofit… | Scott Elliott | 58 comments
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Announcing the Chalkbeat Student Takeover
Dear readers, Today, on Juneteenth, I am so proud to announce a new project to elevate the voices of young people: the Chalkbeat Student Takeover. Since May 25, the day a police officer killed George Floyd, we’ve gathered several times as a team to reflect and share. One Black colleague talked about his fatigue at continuously seeing people like him unjustly killed.
A Future Without the Front Page
The most aggressive response to the collapse of local journalism has come from hundreds of upstart news outlets that have formed over the last 15 years. We asked several industry innovators — three founders of local digital operations, and the architects of a program aimed at bringing legacy newsrooms into the digital era — to share their visions of what local news can look like without a local newspaper.
What we heard when we approached engagement in a new way
As with many initiatives at Chalkbeat, the idea started in one location. Our seventh bureau had just launched in Chicago, and our first order of business was to introduce ourselves to the city. But our new bureau chief, Cassie Walker Burke, knew we had to listen as well as speak. She proposed a listening tour — a roving set of sessions where our top priority would be empowering our audience to share with us.
Tour notes: What we heard when we listened to our communities in a new way
Scenes from a Chalkbeat Indiana listening session in Indianapolis As with many initiatives at Chalkbeat, the idea started in one location. Our seventh bureau had just launched in Chicago, and our first order of business was to introduce ourselves to the city. But our new bureau chief, Cassie Burke, knew we had to listen as well as speak. She proposed a listening tour — a roving set of sessions where our top priority would be empowering our audience to share with us.
Tour notes: What we heard when we listened to our communities in a new way
As with many initiatives at Chalkbeat, the idea started in one location. Our seventh bureau had just launched in Chicago, and our first order of business was to introduce ourselves to the city. But our new bureau chief, Cassie Burke, knew we had to listen as well as speak. She proposed a listening tour — a roving set of sessions where our top priority would be empowering our audience to share with us.
Here are the results from Chalkbeat's 2018 reader survey
Every year, we poll our readers on a host of questions ranging from their role in education to which topics interest them most. More than 1,000 people responded to the Chalkbeat survey this year, and we’re grateful to all of them. Those who answered our callout represent our most loyal readers, but they’re only a small fraction of the hundreds of thousands of people who come to Chalkbeat each month, not to mention those we reach through our many republication partnerships.
Here are five Chalkbeat stories to read this Presidents Day
Happy Presidents Day! We’re off today, and we hope you’re enjoying a three-day weekend too. I’m planning to spend part of today catching up on Chalkbeat stories. Since last summer, when I started as executive editor, I’ve felt like a student again. I’ve never worked in education journalism before, so I’ve tried to read as much as I can — and there’s no better place to start than Chalkbeat’s reporting.
Getting my book rejected 24 times made me realize what American culture gets wrong about failure
The day my book was rejected for the 24th time by a publisher, Michael Phelps won his 24th Olympic medal. As Phelps pointed to the sky in victory, declaring himself #1 yet again, I scraped the bottom of a tub of mint chocolate chip ice cream. Ah, symmetry. As a writer, I’m accustomed to rejection. It still doesn’t feel good.
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