The Lenfest Local Lab winds down

Thank you to everyone who supported our work since 2018, including our collaborators, colleagues, funders and community partners. Also, stay tuned for wrap-up posts!

The amazing Lenfest Local Lab team members over the years, including Sarah Schmalbach, André Natta, Faye Teng, Ana Méndez, Kelly Brennan, Gargi Deshmukh, Brent Hargrave and Ajay Chainani.

Hi, folks. As we wrap up our current threads of research and creation, the Lenfest Local Lab will be shutting down in the coming weeks.

As we complete our work, we’ll be sharing additional insights, code, and data from our work here in the hopes of supporting other local news innovation projects and people.

We hope that our contributions help other innovation groups set benchmarks for success and continue building pathways for inclusive and cross-disciplinary approaches to news product development that prioritize creating things with, and not just for, communities.

We’re grateful for the opportunity to have done this work in service of residents and neighborhoods in the Philadelphia area.

Thanks for your support!

— The Lenfest Local Lab

The Lenfest Local Lab is a multidisciplinary product and user experience innovation team at The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Lab was founded within The Lenfest Institute for Journalism in 2018 before joining The Inquirer in 2021.