Product Strategy
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Transitioning annual awards announcement to virtual
With the annual ONA conference going virtual, it was an additional heartbreak that the annual Online Journalism Awards would be virtual as well. A three-hour participatory program doesn’t necessary translate well online, so our program manager Hollie Schultz…
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Giving nonprofit sponsors a seat at the table with an industry directory
The concept of a business directory is not novel in the association world. It’s an easy way of listing organizational members or sponsors. Any association software suite offers it as an option, but at the…
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Embracing a pivot to virtual with a custom online event platform
Organizations across the world scrambled as the COVID-19 pandemic threatened their very existence and our way of life. We couldn’t meet in person anymore, so we had to meet virtually. So many teams knew this,…
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Creating a home for the Online Journalism Awards
Since 2000, the Online Journalism Awards (OJAs) have honored the best in digital journalism. The range of projects participating in the awards have evolved along with available technology since the early days of the internet.…
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Whipboard
Project deprecated — Over the summer of 2016, I led six interns to produce a new data journalism blog focused on politics. We developed some great features and processes, but ultimately the project ended with the…
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BillTicker
Inspired by websites like Marketwatch, I pitched a hackathon project that would bring the current status and projection of bills into news articles. The tool leveraged the FiscalNote API and inserted text into a paragraph…
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SimpleElection
Design wasn’t my top priority when developing SimpleElection; instead I wanted to quickly test a premise that news outlets would be interested in using election-related widgets. On election night, I updated an electoral college map for…
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Feb. 2, 2011 blizzard coverage
So much of my work from the Northwest Herald has been lost to poor archival procedures and the impermanence of digital content. However, I was exited to recently discover a landing page I built for…
