Engagement projects

Your COVID-19 questions, answered

  • Collected audience questions using Hearken submission form, social media and email campaigns

  • answered thousands of audience questions directly, consulting experts and providing resources

  • helped inform and write faqs related to health, safety and pandemic regulations

Outside in MN

  • Partnership across news teams, company

  • Creation of a user-friendly app on a mission to get people more connected with the outdoors

  • Worked with design team, testing and refining the look and function of the app

  • Helped report and distribute reporting related to project, using audience feedback as a guide and closing the loop on their questions

  • Built connections with local businesses/organizations to help contribute content and events within the app

  • Made connections on social media to help advertise as well as spread the mission/content into other spaces online

Climate Curious

  • project leading up to the Youth Climate Strike

  • Collected audience questions online

    • Social media

    • Connecting with related groups to distribute

  • Held a voting round to help gauge interest in the top questions

  • distributed related reporting directly to those who submitted questions and related groups

Ground Level

  • Survey which helped shape several stories driven by engagement with the community

    • Engaged our Public Insight Network to find sources/reaction/questions

  • created Collection page with over 300 submissions on one of the key questions: What’s one thing you want to see change

  • Helped build our sources network with new, insightful sources

  • launched a highly engaged Facebook discussion group which i moderate

  • organized a live event under the ground level brand that was later broadcast on the air

Meet the Candidates and Pick a Candidate

  • collected and organized feedback from the audience to ensure we were providing all of the information most relevant to their lives

  • Created quizzes to help introduce audience to those candidates, using the guides as a road map

  • Worked with new translation service to have all of the main races translated into Hmong, Spanish and Somali to help better inform new voters

  • Reached out to groups dedicated empowering voters to help distribute to those who will benefit most

  • This same work has been repeated on a smaller scale every year

Reporting

Find all of my latest reporting here!