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Six Tips for Unionizing Your Workplace
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onUnionizing 101, a SRCCON session preview.
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Why a Kickoff Kit Makes Starting New Projects Easier
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onAligning your team early can make all the difference.
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Texting Your Audience is a Really Good Idea
By Lindsay Muscato
Posted onA SRCCON 2018 session about interacting with your listeners and readers through SMS.
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Know Before You Go (to HR)
By Heather Bryant
Posted onKnowing what HR can and can’t help you with—and what your rights are—will help you navigate the process.
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How to Make Time
By Kaeti Hinck
Posted onPursuing a deeper understanding of our goals, motivations, and patterns can transform our work and our lives.
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Salary and Benefits Negotiation for News Nerds
By Soo Oh
Posted onHow to negotiate a salary and benefits in the age of anxiety.
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Better Onboarding, Better Retention, Happier Humans
By Melody Kramer and Kate Travis
Posted onOnboarding is really important for new employees—many make the decision to stay or leave during the first six months of employment, according to Project Include–but it’s also incredibly important for employers.
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The Work We Do Tells Amazing People That They Do Not Belong
By Sydette Harry and Erin Kissane
Posted onWith SRCCON:WORK just getting underway, here’s our Q&A with our opening speaker, Sydette Harry of the Coral Project and the Mozilla Foundation. Sydette spoke this morning about journalism’s inclination to skip the critical questions about diversity and representation.
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Mental Health Strategies for the Non-Invincible Newsroom
By Erin Brown and Erin Kissane
Posted onSRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference.
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Building Collaboration Without Surveillance
By Mandy Brown and Erin Kissane
Posted onSRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference. Here’s our Q&A; with Mandy Brown.
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Changing Newsrooms from the Ground Up and the Top Down
By Erin Kissane and Jessica Morrison
Posted onSRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference.
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What Mentorship Means and Why It’s Magic, Pt. 2
By Erin Kissane and David Yee
Posted onSRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference. Here’s our Q&A with David Yee.
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What Mentorship Means and Why It’s Magic
By Erin Kissane and Nicole Zhu
Posted onSRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference. Here’s our Q&A; with Nicole Zhu.
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A Blind Application Process Might Be Easier Than You Think
By Lindsay Muscato and Sisi Wei
Posted onSRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference. First up is ProPublica’s Sisi Wei, who will speak about blind hiring processes
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You’re Perfect, We Can’t Hire You
By Erin Kissane and Disha Raychaudhuri
Posted onSRCCON:WORK is coming up fast. In the run-up to the event, we’re publishing short interviews with the nine people selected to give talks to frame the participatory sections at the heart of the conference. Here’s our Q&A; with Disha Raychaudhuri.
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Stuck in a Rut? Tackle Newsroom Frustrations With Board Games
By Sara Konrad Baranowski and Andrea Suozzo
Posted onFor our SRCCON session, we wanted to capture some of these workplace frustrations, but approach solutions in a different way. What if, instead of feeling discouraged and overwhelmed, we developed processes to boil those challenges down to their basic elements—people involved, tasks, obstacles and goals? What if we figured out how to tackle each challenge in a measured way, one step at a time?
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Building Better Story Formats for Live Coverage
By Hamilton Boardman, Alastair Coote, and Tiff Fehr
Posted onLive coverage is a big challenge for newsrooms. It sits at the intersection of high stress moments and production-intensive story forms. We use a variety of tools to help us with breaking news, but they’re typically not forms we use day to day. And on top of that, we still need to think about improvements and new ways to reach our readers. SRCCON 2017 provided a unique opportunity for us to discuss the pros and cons of story forms we use for breaking news and live coverage.
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Databae, Better Bots, and the Automation We Need Right Now
By Steven Rich and Aaron Williams
Posted onFind practical approaches to creating software to cover democracy, from a SRCCON 2017 session
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Aim to Misbehave: Allies and Privileges in Media Creation
By Sydette Harry and Gabriela Rodríguez Berón
Posted onA SRCCON 2017 workshop on privilege, journalism, and dreaming of something better.
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Teaching and Brainstorming Inclusive Technical Metaphors
By Nicole Zhu
Posted onA session at SRCCON 2017 on inclusive metaphors in tech.
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