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Aug 8, 2022

An Inside Look: Expanding Spatial Journalism in the Bay Area

By 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 Journalism

7 min read

An Inside Look: Expanding Spatial Journalism in the Bay Area
An Inside Look: Expanding Spatial Journalism in the Bay Area
Local Journalism

7 min read


Dec 29, 2021

Lowering Fences

A 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 Analysis

3 min read

Spatial Analysis

3 min read


Dec 29, 2021

Measuring Local News Representation through a Geographic Lens

A 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 Analysis

9 min read

Measuring Local News Representation through a Geographic Lens
Measuring Local News Representation through a Geographic Lens
Spatial Analysis

9 min read


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UX Collective

·Oct 21, 2019

Enabling a sense of community in personal spaces

How 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. …

Journalism

9 min read

Enabling a sense of community in personal spaces
Enabling a sense of community in personal spaces
Journalism

9 min read


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The Startup

·Aug 9, 2019

Designing for Experiences with a Troubled Past… and Present

The 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…

Journalism

13 min read

Designing for Experiences with a Troubled Past… and Present
Designing for Experiences with a Troubled Past… and Present
Journalism

13 min read


Apr 5, 2019

Designing news distribution for smart cities

An 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 News

7 min read

Designing news distribution for smart cities
Designing news distribution for smart cities
Local News

7 min read


Apr 5, 2019

Diversifying news distribution with meaningful collaborations

Lessons 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.” …

Journalism

11 min read

Diversifying news distribution with meaningful collaborations
Diversifying news distribution with meaningful collaborations
Journalism

11 min read


Oct 22, 2018

2 Critical Misunderstandings Halting The Prevention of Fake News

Up 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. …

Journalism

11 min read

2 Critical Misunderstandings Halting The Prevention of Fake News
2 Critical Misunderstandings Halting The Prevention of Fake News
Journalism

11 min read


Jul 27, 2018

How journalism is falling short to engage local communities

And what I’m doing about it. The following covers my research to fill the gaps between local journalism and community engagement. …

Journalism

12 min read

How journalism is falling short to engage local communities
How journalism is falling short to engage local communities
Journalism

12 min read


Oct 8, 2017

How scientific revolutions influence our understanding of journalism

From 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. …

Media

8 min read

How scientific revolutions influence our understanding of journalism
How scientific revolutions influence our understanding of journalism
Media

8 min read

Stephen Jefferson

Stephen Jefferson

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Designing for news and communities. Founder of Bloom Labs (www.bloom.li), 2016 Tow-Knight Fellow. Washington DC

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