In our ongoing work with the Knight Foundation on strategies for supporting local news, Dot Connector’s Mark Glaser has begun a series of guides for community publishers and media professionals.
In the first one, A Guide to Resources for Local News Publishers of Color, Glaser rounds up the best grants and funding, associations/communities, training/fellowships, and tips for collaboration, touching on what is missing from the current field.
We’re pleased to announce that, with funding from the Ford Foundation, Dot Connector Studio and the Guild of Future Architects (GoFA)are launching a three-year project to support diverse journalists in collaborating on projects designed to make news more representative and actionable. We’re calling it the New/s initiative:…
Over the course of this disorienting pandemic and the multiple reckonings around social equality that have been roiling America, I’ve led a shift in focus at Dot Connector Studio toward forecasting and scenario planning. We’ve worked in tandem with our clients to understand the longer-term trends…
Our Impact Pack continues to make its way around the globe. Check out the full list below to see where the decks have been. AFI DOCS Impact Lab, Washington, DC Central European University, Budapest, Hungary ComNet17, Miami Beach, Florida Conservation Media Group, Camden, ME Culture…
Earlier this month, Jessica Clark worked with participants of the 2017 AFI Docs Impact Lab to use the Impact Pack to shape their strategies and goals. The Impact Pack has been featured in workshops and presentations around the world. So far, in addition to ongoing…
Ever wondered why the weather’s gotten so volatile? That’s the guiding question for iSeeChange. At Dot Connector Studio, we’re psyched to help Executive Producer Julia Kumari Drapkin expand this crowdsourced climate reporting project across the country. Incubated at Colorado public station KVNF via AIR’s Localore…
Here’s what’s sprouting at Dot Connector Studio — discover our latest strategy tool, hot spots we’ll be hitting in the next few months, and media picks. We’re collaborating with the Tribeca Film Institute, MIT’s Open Documentary Lab and The Fledgling Fund to develop visual models…
Today at Dot Connector Studio HQ, I am saddling up for a snowy trip to DC, to join doc makers, researchers and funders for the 11th Annual Media That Matters conference. The focus is on media and impact, and I will be showcasing strategy tools we have helped to develop and…
How can “cusp interfaces”—which bridge the membrane between physical and digital—be used to create new forms of journalism? Find out what I discovered at the Online News Association conference in Chicago, in this piece for PBS MediaShift. Plus, an extra bonus for those who make…
This week on Medium, I write about the growing backlash against our always-on, mobile lifestyle, and ponder how new ways of connecting the digital to the physical might provide a remedy. Here are the first two pieces in my ongoing project titled The Revenge of…
