How to copy our great hiring process, step by step

When should newsrooms not use Facebook for audience engagement? When they actually want to make money.

The winners of Hearken’s 2017 Champion of Curiosity Awards

The best of the 1,000+ public-powered…

Your audience is wicked smart and will ask serious questions. Here are 50 examples as proof.

Show your work: Helping reporters be more transparent, earn trust and build audience with Hearken’s notebook

Hearken is developing a new tool for pre-publication audience engagement. A few partner newsrooms are already testing it out. Hearken’s Julia…

Meet the Hearken Consulting Team

We’re hiring at Hearken! We’re looking for a rad journalist and community engager to be the fourth…

Highlights from 6 months of Hearken case studies

Five success stories and four lessons from our…

Hearken Case Study: WBEZ turns a poop question (literally) into a live event, animated story

Curious City tackles a 5-year-old’s question about a complex system, answers it in ways that appeal to all…

Harnessing audience curiosity to power a public media student newsroom

Where do I find story ideas?

It’s the most common day-to-day and semester-to-semester inquiry from students at the Innovation News Center at the University of Florida’s College of…

Curiosity all the way: Why I joined the Hearken team