Aug 8, 2022An Inside Look: Expanding Spatial Journalism in the Bay AreaBy Amy Schmitz Weiss, Ph.D., Journalism Professor at San Diego State University News organizations these days are constantly seeking ways to understand how they can better serve their communities. …Local Journalism7 min readLocal Journalism7 min read
Dec 29, 2021Lowering FencesA developing concept for improving our understanding of news representation by making spatial boundaries more inclusive. This article is an excerpt taken from a report I co-wrote for Bay Area News Collective in December 2021. It also references Representation Indicators that I wrote about in this Medium article. …Spatial Analysis3 min readSpatial Analysis3 min read
Dec 29, 2021Measuring Local News Representation through a Geographic LensA look at the seven representation indicators we defined from spatial patterns in 19 resident interviews and over 8,000 geotagged news stories. Over the past year, with the help of Google News Initiative, I led the first cross-newsroom collaboration focused on spatial journalism at Bloom Labs called Bay Area News…Spatial Analysis9 min readSpatial Analysis9 min read
Published inUX Collective·Oct 21, 2019Member-onlyEnabling a sense of community in personal spacesHow individual-focused mediums silo us away from communities and how we can redesign them to bring us back together. — Our email inbox is a personal space that fills with informative, humorous, and beautiful newsletters from almost every organization and topic you can think of. Typically, the act of reading email is meant to be personal and has been designed and written with the intention to serve an individual. …Journalism9 min readJournalism9 min read
Published inThe Startup·Aug 9, 2019Member-onlyDesigning for Experiences with a Troubled Past… and PresentThe impact of bad UX for news and lessons from new approaches trying to fix it. Are new and innovative designs and technologies for news doomed by mistakes from its past? Will news websites be able to catch up as tech giants push the standards for user experience? In this…Journalism13 min readJournalism13 min read
Apr 5, 2019Designing news distribution for smart citiesAn analysis of the probabilities and opportunities for local journalism with smart city devices — This is an extension of my article “Diversifying news distribution with meaningful collaborations”. I sought out to learn more about the opportunities between local news and smart cities after identifying relationships in the value local news provides to communities and the goals of smart city technology. …Local News7 min readLocal News7 min read
Apr 5, 2019Diversifying news distribution with meaningful collaborationsLessons from identifying opportunity outside of the industry — Journalism has historically made its news more adaptable in order to reach new distribution and business opportunities. Richard Gingras, now VP of News at Google, said at ISOJ in 2012: “shifts in distribution shape the business model.” …Journalism11 min readJournalism11 min read
Oct 22, 20182 Critical Misunderstandings Halting The Prevention of Fake NewsUp until now, I’ve purposely avoided getting into the weeds of fake news. It has appeared to me as a temporary nuisance to the wider impact of journalism’s challenges with sustainability. …Journalism11 min readJournalism11 min read
Jul 27, 2018How journalism is falling short to engage local communitiesAnd what I’m doing about it. The following covers my research to fill the gaps between local journalism and community engagement. …Journalism12 min readJournalism12 min read
Oct 8, 2017How scientific revolutions influence our understanding of journalismFrom the miscommunications that delayed the discovery of oxygen, to the technology that limited the discovery of Uranus, scientists have encountered challenges in the same way journalists and technologists do today in the newsroom. …Media8 min readMedia8 min read
