What do we need to tell great stories with our audiences and community? From tools that help collect and analyze contributions to tools that help us collaborate with readers (and other journalists) ...
Amanda Zamora
Amanda Zamora is ProPublica's senior engagement editor, where she leads the newsroom's efforts to get audiences involved in its investigative journalism.
She also established the Crowd-Powered News Network, a collective for journalists and others proactively engaging audiences in storytelling.
Previously, Amanda spent more than eight years as a digital producer and editor at The Washington Post, leading the site's election coverage as national digital editor in 2012. She led digital coverage on the metro, foreign and investigative desks before serving as the Post's first social media and engagement editor from 2010-2011. Zamora began her journalism career at the Austin American-Statesman. In 2009, she helped launch the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, a non-profit news site based in Washington, D.C. She is also a previous Knight Digital Media Fellow with the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism.
Digital tools and emerging platforms have empowered newsrooms and communities alike to embrace audience-driven storytelling. What are the new models for collaborative journalism? Do certain stories ...
The end (of an article/video) is just the beginning: the significance of online comments
In the old world of print-only newspaper journalism, once a journalist had sent his/her article to the editor it was job done and time to head to the bar. Feedback meant one of three things; a rocket ...
The emergence of new technologies within the reach of all and of a wider and more accessible Internet have facilitated the creation and the sharing of non-professional news&opinion and accelerated...
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