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The Lenfest Local Lab
A Philadelphia-based news product innovation team within the Lenfest Institute for Journalism experimenting openly with ways to reinvent the daily user experience for local news.
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Building Context-Aware Notifications
Building Context-Aware Notifications
How relevant or useful a news notification is to someone depends a lot on the content — are you interested in politics, sports or a new…
Ajay Chainani
Dec 4
Building an unlimited amount of location triggered notifications
Building an unlimited amount of location triggered notifications
How we worked around Apple’s limit of 64 local pending notifications to build the HERE for Local Journalism app.
Ajay Chainani
Dec 4
Transparency, all the way down.
Transparency, all the way down.
How the Lab’s transparency principle impact engineering — along with the release of open-source code for our first app, HERE.
Brent Hargrave
Nov 30
How we plan to share our process (and show our work) in the Lenfest Local Lab
How we plan to share our process (and show our work) in the Lenfest Local Lab
We believe in order to create change in journalism, we need to prioritize explaining the benefits of our process over any single success.
André Natta
Nov 27
Introducing HERE: A location-aware app that puts you at the center of local news discovery.
Introducing HERE: A location-aware app that puts you at the center of local news discovery.
Our first experimental app explores what’s made possible by geotagging local news stories and delivering them when you’re nearby.
Sarah Schmalbach
Nov 20
Applying research and analysis to the design and testing phase of a new product
Applying research and analysis to the design and testing phase of a new product
Our four-step process for moving from pen & pencil sketches to the full product design for a location-aware local news app.
Faye Teng
Nov 12
How the Lenfest Local Lab and the Philadelphia Inquirer worked together to launch an experiment…
How the Lenfest Local Lab and the Philadelphia Inquirer worked together to launch an experiment…
A glimpse into how much timing really mattered — and maybe shouldn’t need to — when it came to building an experimental local news product…
Sarah Schmalbach
Oct 11
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