Lightning Chats
Discuss a shared challenge, brainstorm ideas for a project, or learn more about a case study with Gather's lightning chats. You can also subscribe to a lightning chat calendar on Google calendar or on iCal.
We’ll be announcing times for two chats (one about Nextdoor and one about Reddit) as soon as plans are firm. In the meantime, catch up on these other chats related to social media work:
Each link has a video replay of the 30-minute chat, along with notes.
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:
- Newsletter Editor, Washington Post: "The Washington Post is looking for a newsletter editor to support a wide portfolio of editorial products that have become an essential part of The Post’s success in reaching and retaining readers. This editor will help oversee and improve existing newsletters, scout new opportunities, grow audiences and shape the future of our in-house email tool, Carta.
The ideal candidate for this job will have experience launching or writing newsletters and using analytics to make decisions. Strong news judgment, a desire to experiment and an interest in distribution and how readers consume news in 2018 is essential. This person should care deeply about newsletters as a platform for delivering journalism and as a tool for deepening reader engagement. This editor must have excellent communication skills and should be excited to work with a small group executing our day-to-day newsletter operation reaching millions of readers. This role also involves very close partnership and collaboration with engineering, product, subscriptions, analytics and advertising teams." Learn more.
Community Updates
- Engaged meetings: Questions can be a great way to bring engagement into newsroom conversations. We asked on Slack last week: What is your favorite question to ask in meetings? (One gem, from Janine Anderson: “Who can we help today?”)
- Taking responsibility: As Andrew Losowsky and others pointed out last week, when we cover traumatic topics like sexual assault, our community sometimes reaches back out to us with their own experiences. They’re feeling brave and see journalists as trusted way to share. Are we ready to receive those stories — and to treat the storytellers with care?
- Hot Read: "What it takes to shift a news organization to reader revenue" by Gatherer Damon Kiesow. (This is the Gather community's most-shared story on Twitter this week. Look for other 'hot reads' in Friday's Nuzzel newsletter and in the #reads channel on the Gather Slack.)
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Meet Jorge Caraballo, this week's Featured Member.
Name: Jorge Caraballo 
What you do: I’m the engagement editor of Radio Ambulante, NPR’s first podcast in Spanish.
Why you're on Gather: Working as an engagement editor has helped me to be optimistic about the possibilities of journalism in this networked era. However, it’s frustrating that for a lot of my colleagues in journalism the engagement work is just a bonus track, a net to capture eyeballs. Gather is a rewarding community where I can learn from colleagues who believe in the value of a close relationship with those who we serve.
One thing you want to learn on Gather: Online and offline strategies to increase the civic impact of my work as a journalist and engagement editor.
One thing you have to share on Gather: Last year I used postcards to inform about a housing crisis in a neighborhood in Boston. The goal of the project was to share resources in an engaging way, so people in the community could better organize themselves and, hopefully, avoid eviction. I’d like to share the experience of that project. You can read it here: What is Postcard Journalism?
One thing about your work that gets you especially pumped up: I’ve been working with Radio Ambulante for a year, and it still surprises me the quality of the conversations and collaborations in our community. I love to see how our listeners are creating strong ties between themselves, and even if they have disagreements, they keep a respectful and empathetic tone when they interact because, before all, they’re Radio Ambulante listeners.
Who or what inspired you to get into this work? I’m a big fan of Ethan Zuckerman and Sasha Costanza-Chock from the MIT Center for Civic Media. I had the privilege of learning from them while I lived in Boston two years ago, and they’ve definitely influenced how I understand my role as a journalist.
Would you rather give up social media or coffee for a week? Social media. I want to delete my personal social media accounts every other day. After working eight or ten hours a day in social media, I just can’t check my Instagram or Twitter accounts. It feels like being trapped in your office. (And there’s also a second reason: Even though I’m Colombian, I avoid coffee as much as I can.)
Links for ways to connect with you.
www.twitter.com/jorgecaraballo
www.instagram.com/caraballocordovez
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