Robert Chappell
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(He/Him)
As seen in:
Madison365,
Flipboard,
EIN News,
KTVZ-TV (Bend, OR),
Wisconsin Public Radio,
Philadelphia Tribune,
KESQ-TV (Thousand Palms, CA),
KRDO-TV (Colorado Springs, CO),
KVIA-TV (El Paso, TX),
KYMA-TV (Yuma, AZ),
KMIZ-TV (Columbia, MO)
and
Covers:
Race, racial equity, immigration, Madison, Wisconsin
Executive editor @madison_365 (madison365.org). Host of @TalkinFlock, the #FullMingo podcast. Journalism, soccer, amusing parental anecdotes. He/him.
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Robert Chappell’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Robert Chappell is a cofounder, associate publisher and editorial director of Madison365, the nation's first nonprofit news outlet focused on communities of color. He began his professional journalism career at the age of 15, covering village government for the Mount Horeb Mail in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. He worked as editor of the Fennimore Times and associate editor of Madison Magazine. He later served Wisconsin Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton as communications director and worked in strategic com…
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Interview
See all 13 answers →What was your first job as a journalist?
First stringer gig was covering Village Board for the Mt. Horeb Mail, a small-town weekly, at the age of 15, for $25 a story.
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes of course! I wrote several fiction stories on a typewriter. My first professional news stories came out of a dot matrix printer, though.
How is social media changing news?
Disaggregation. News has become ambient. Used to be the newspaper had to sell; now each story has to perform and be measured and monetized.