Lightning Chats
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The top of today’s newsletter summarizes our Sept 18 chat on election coverage. What would you like to see addressed in a lightning chat? Is there a project you have questions about? An issue you want to brainstorm? Let us know on Slack, or reply to this email.
Jobs, Fellowships, and Funding
Check out our full list of jobs, fellowships, and funding opportunities on Gather, and let us know what we're missing. Here's what's new this week:
- News Producer (Digital/Audience Engagement), Seattle Times: "The Seattle Times, the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, is excited to announce a recent opening for a News Producer in our award-winning newsroom. This vital role works at the intersection of digital engagement and journalism to promote our stories in innovative ways.
As the News Producer, this individual will create, edit, and format content for our digital products with a core focus on audience engagement. The successful candidate will be a big-picture thinker who also pays attention to detail, has expertise in Facebook and other social media, is a strong communicator, loves problem-solving and exhibits nimbleness, diplomacy, productivity, news judgment, sensitivity and taste." Learn more.
Community Update
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Meet Amy Wilson-Chapman, this week's Featured Member.
Name: Amy Wilson-Chapman 
What you do: I am the community engagement editor for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) - what a mouthful! ICIJ is a news organization based in Washington, DC, but we work with hundreds of media partners across the world to bring you investigations like Paradise Papers and Panama Papers. It makes my role pretty different!
Why you’re on Gather: I’ve worked in engagement/social media/digital production for a few years, and even in a big newsroom, you can definitely feel like a lone wolf. So I’ve always jumped at any opportunity to share ideas and complaints and learn from other people. Before ICIJ I worked in Australia, where we, unfortunately, are a long way behind the US when it comes to engagement strategies (and digital media generally). Gather has been a great way to make connections with people who are working in some forward thinking newsrooms!
One thing you want to learn on Gather: I want to learn it all! I’m always keen to hear more about how people are using newsletters in their organization, but I am very excited by Instagram’s potential and so enjoy learning that too. I also think it’s interesting to hear about how other people in similar roles, work inside/with newsrooms and achieve great outcomes. I am also keen to learn more about the nonprofit media world. It’s quite different (and very similar at the same time) to the for-profit space!
One thing you have to share on Gather: Other than really bad Australian jokes, I’m always up for sharing anything I’ve learnt along the way. I’ve had a few wins with various platforms and I’m always happy to help!
One thing about your work that gets you especially pumped up: I get really excited when people reply to my weekly emails, and when we have a great conversation (generally on Reddit at ICIJ). But also… investigation time is hard to beat! I had a lot of fun in the lead up to Paradise Papers (published in November last year) going live. After working on something for so long, it’s great to finally see all the components come together. And then watch how the world reacts.
Who or what inspired you to get into this work? I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to tell other people’s stories (aka journalism) for a living. I think the media, and reporters, have a crucial role to play in a healthy democracy. And these days, I think it’s integral we (the media) work out how to engage an audience that really doesn’t trust us, and much of the time also doesn’t have time for us! People have forgotten (maybe they never knew, though) that the powerful need to be held to account, and the best way to do that is through the media.
Would you rather give up social media or coffee for a week? In Australia, social media, but in the US coffee sucks, so coffee!
Would you rather have more time or more money? More time. I’d just like to hang with my mates and family more.
Links for ways to connect with you.
Email - awilsonchapman@icij.org
Twitter - @amytheblue
Instagram - @amytheblue
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amywilsonchapman/
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