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Six Tips for Unionizing Your Workplace

By Lindsay Muscato

Posted on June 26, 2018
Unionizing 101, a SRCCON session preview.
Why a Kickoff Kit Makes Starting New Projects Easier

By Lindsay Muscato

Posted on June 25, 2018
Aligning your team early can make all the difference.
Texting Your Audience is a Really Good Idea

By Lindsay Muscato

Posted on June 20, 2018
A SRCCON 2018 session about interacting with your listeners and readers through SMS.
Know Before You Go (to HR)

By Heather Bryant

Posted on February 20, 2018
Knowing what HR can and can’t help you with—and what your rights are—will help you navigate the process.
How to Make Time

By Kaeti Hinck

Posted on February 15, 2018
Pursuing a deeper understanding of our goals, motivations, and patterns can transform our work and our lives.
Salary and Benefits Negotiation for News Nerds

By Soo Oh

Posted on February 8, 2018
How to negotiate a salary and benefits in the age of anxiety.
Better Onboarding, Better Retention, Happier Humans

By Melody Kramer and Kate Travis

Posted on February 1, 2018
Onboarding 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.
The Work We Do Tells Amazing People That They Do Not Belong

By Sydette Harry and Erin Kissane

Posted on December 7, 2017
With 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.
Mental Health Strategies for the Non-Invincible Newsroom

By Erin Brown and Erin Kissane

Posted on December 5, 2017
SRCCON: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.
Building Collaboration Without Surveillance

By Mandy Brown and Erin Kissane

Posted on December 4, 2017
SRCCON: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.
Changing Newsrooms from the Ground Up and the Top Down

By Erin Kissane and Jessica Morrison

Posted on November 29, 2017
SRCCON: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.
What Mentorship Means and Why It’s Magic, Pt. 2

By Erin Kissane and David Yee

Posted on November 28, 2017
SRCCON: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.
What Mentorship Means and Why It’s Magic

By Erin Kissane and Nicole Zhu

Posted on November 27, 2017
SRCCON: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.
A Blind Application Process Might Be Easier Than You Think

By Lindsay Muscato and Sisi Wei

Posted on November 22, 2017
SRCCON: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
You’re Perfect, We Can’t Hire You

By Erin Kissane and Disha Raychaudhuri

Posted on November 21, 2017
SRCCON: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.
Stuck in a Rut? Tackle Newsroom Frustrations With Board Games

By Sara Konrad Baranowski and Andrea Suozzo

Posted on October 11, 2017
For 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?
Building Better Story Formats for Live Coverage

By Hamilton Boardman, Alastair Coote, and Tiff Fehr

Posted on September 27, 2017
Live 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.
Databae, Better Bots, and the Automation We Need Right Now

By Steven Rich and Aaron Williams

Posted on September 12, 2017
Find practical approaches to creating software to cover democracy, from a SRCCON 2017 session
Aim to Misbehave: Allies and Privileges in Media Creation

By Sydette Harry and Gabriela Rodríguez Berón

Posted on September 11, 2017
A SRCCON 2017 workshop on privilege, journalism, and dreaming of something better.
Teaching and Brainstorming Inclusive Technical Metaphors

By Nicole Zhu

Posted on September 8, 2017
A session at SRCCON 2017 on inclusive metaphors in tech.