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Articles tagged Sarah Alvarez (10)

Sophie CulpepperOctober 30, 2024

Is the crime news people crave the crime news they need?

“We need to better understand what people mean when they say ‘safety.’”

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 15, 2022

“News as a public utility”: Outlier Media and Detour Detroit are joining forces

“We’re going past the idea of thinking ‘How can we get someone to give $5 a month?’ and thinking, ‘How do we inspire people to action?’”

Sarah AlvarezMarch 22, 2021

Build for a crisis: Ideas for the future of local news

“We believe for local news to have a future, it has to be built for people when they truly need information before it is built for people when they are just curious.”

Nicole A. ChildersNovember 24, 2020

The moral argument for diversity in newsrooms is also a business argument — and you need both

The business case for diversity and inclusion in newsrooms is important, but emphasizing the moral case is required for real and lasting change.

Christine SchmidtJanuary 27, 2020

Text-for-housing-data service Outlier Media and MuckRock combine to close more information gaps around the country

The two companies are now one, and they’ll soon launch a service similar to Outlier’s Detroit project in Milwaukee.

“There is no Wirecutter for the poor,” but if there were, what would it look like?

How to report on — and hire for — journalism’s poverty problem

Heather ChaplinSeptember 16, 2018

“The cure lies within us, if we have the will and the imagination to develop it”

“Because journalism is not The New York Times, or BuzzFeed, or the Miami Herald. When you strip everything down to its essential function, journalism is a system for collecting, synthesizing, verifying and distributing news. Everything else is just form.”

Christine SchmidtJuly 12, 2018

What kind of information — not just content — do you need as a news consumer?

Pulse, a project launched by Sarah Alvarez and Andrew Haeg, aims to help news organizations text their communities to find out.

Christine SchmidtMarch 1, 2018

By mass-texting local residents, Outlier Media connects low-income news consumers to useful, personalized data

“I was not satisfied with covering low-income communities for a higher-income audience. I wanted to cover issues for and with low-income news consumers.”