We're thrilled to welcome Paola Baradello to the INN Labs team as our new account director!
Paola specializes in helping organizations understand how to optimize their online and digital media presence. Continue reading "Welcome Paola Baradello to INN Labs!"
We're so excited to welcome Tyler Machado to the INN Labs team as our front-end developer.
Tyler Machado is a web developer based in Boston, MA, and working at the intersection of technology, journalism, and visual storytelling. Tyler previously worked as the editorial developer for Harvard Business Review, where he built interactive graphics and helped start HBR’s chatbot presence on Slack and Facebook Messenger. Before that he worked on web development, social media and email newsletters at the Vermont newsweekly Seven Days. He’s led sessions at SRCCON, Cascade BOS, and Boston University's Storytelling With Data Workshops, and he's won awards from Folio: Magazine and the Association of Alternative Newsmedia.
Tyler recently received a certificate in data science from Harvard University. He holds a B.A. in journalism from Saint Michael's College, where he won the John D. Donoghue Award for outstanding service to student publications. He has done volunteer work with the DIY arts website Boston Hassle, as well as the Code For America and Girl Develop It groups in Burlington, VT.
At INN, Tyler will be the front-end lead on our team, working on a mix of INN Labs tools and client projects, and contributing to our mission of building open source software that serves independent and nonprofit publishers.
Tyler starts full time with us on February 5, and we're thrilled to have him on board!
The Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), a network of 140+ nonprofit news organizations, has an immediate opening for a part-time account manager with INN Labs, our product and technology team.
INN Labs focuses on solving problems that we're uniquely suited to tackle at a network level, such as:
Read about our team values and learn more about us on labs.inn.org.
As account manager for INN Labs, you’ll be building strong relationships with the expanding number of news organizations powered by WordPress. And you’ll be growing INN’s portfolio of news technology accounts.
INN Labs operates as a mission-driven social enterprise, providing subsidized news technology and open source publishing tools to news organizations as part of its mission to support and expand public service journalism.
You’ll own our customer relationships, making sure members and other clients are well-served, that they know how INN Labs can help them and understand the news products we build. You’ll grow the revenue stream from this work, which helps cover nonprofits’ costs and supports INN’s continued public service work. You’ll provide continual feedback and intelligence on customer needs to the product team.
The ideal candidate for this position is an outgoing professional who knows the technology needs of news organizations and can increase the scope and impact of INN’s design and development work. You’ll introduce INN Labs’ work to nonprofit and independent news startups and serve as client liaison for enterprise-level partners such as NPR, publishing groups, university innovation labs and other journalism initiatives.
Ultimately, you should be able to grow INN Labs' business and its mission impact by building successful, long-term partnerships from our membership base and beyond.
Key Responsibilities:
Skills and Qualifications:
Nice to have:
We are a distributed team and this is a remote, salaried position with some benefits. Previous experience working remotely would be helpful but we'll do whatever we can to help and support your transition if this is your first remote job.
INN is an equal-opportunity employer, and we are committed to creating a workplace where diversity is valued. People of color, women, and members of other under-represented groups in journalism, media, and technology are strongly encouraged to apply. In addition to federal law requirements, INN complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
Please read this post about our application and interview process and then send your resumé and cover letter to julia+jobs@inn.org.
This week we released two new WordPress plugins to support our members' News Match fundraising campaigns. Next week we will be hosting a webinar, WordPress Tools for your News Match Campaign, to demo the plugins and share some technical best practices for year-end fundraising. Continue reading "Plugin Releases: Two new News Match plugins are ready for action"
News Match is back! The team at INN Labs is gearing up to help participating organizations take advantage of this unique and impactful opportunity.
Continue reading "News Match is here, and we’re here to help"
In part 4 of our "Meet the Team" series, we get to know RC Lations, our enterprising lead developer.
RC joined the team in August 2016, and he's had a huge impact on INN Labs' products, infrastructure, and client projects since then. Continue reading "Meet the Team: RC Lations, Lead Developer"
In Part 2 of our "Meet the Team" series, we'll get to know Kay Lima, our Support & Community Lead.
Kay joined the team in January of this year to support our members and clients, helping them make the best possible use of the tools we build – and she's been a driving force ever since. Not only does she own our support process and evangelize our work, but she's spearheaded internal operational improvements, is a fierce project manager, and she's really brought the team together by introducing us to all sorts of team-building techniques.
More from Kay, in her own words:
Originally from MA, now living in sunny Denver, CO.
My official title is Support & Community Lead; I oversee the support, documentation and training for Largo and the plugins we maintain, provide Google Analytics, AdWords, and SEO consulting, some front-end development and also manage website projects.
Helping our incredible members and working with such a fantastic team!
So far, I've revamped our support Help Desk (support.largoproject.org) and our project management process, presented a webinar on Google AdWords and Ad Grants, and have directly helped 60 different members with ongoing support.
TheSkimm, Alexa flash briefings, NPR, Vice News/Viceland, NYTimes (the Sunday paper edition), Snapchat, and Twitter.
Tony Hsieh (for team culture and customer service), girls who code (and their inspiring projects) and my wonderful mother.
I'm really proud of graduating from a rigorous full-stack bootcamp focusing on JavaScript and PHP-based stacks.
I love hiking, running, and skateboarding with my husband and our dog. You can also find me at a craft brewery or cafe, local tech meetup, farmers market, or working on a personal coding or brush lettering project.
Working with my dog!
Chess.
INFJ.
A Midas touch of sorts, except instead of turning what I touch to gold, it would instantly solve problems and eliminate suffering.
This is really hard... A three-way tie between: Fugazi - The Argument, The Clash - Combat Rock and Verdi's La Traviata recorded at the Met with Pavarotti and Studer, conducted by James Levine.
Sicily. What an incredibly wild and beautiful place! I spent time there (and elsewhere in Italy) working on organic farms and eating... lots of eating.
Definitely a dog person. :)
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Adam: ...will be back next week! ?
Ben: Today, we use software to draw maps. In days of yore, though, it required a number of specialized, shiny, mechanical implements, a number of which have been photographed by the CIA and posted on Flickr for your viewing pleasure.
Gabe: Behance’s Year in Review is a beautiful compendium of exemplary illustration, photography, and design work in 2016.
Julia: After experimenting with 24 different data visualization tools to chart a single dataset, Lisa Charlotte Rost shared her findings to help you choose the right tech for your needs.
RC: Freedom of the Press Foundation has released Secure The News, their automated tool to track adoption of HTTPS website encryption by news organizations.
Inndy: Never trust a caroling robot.
Muckrock – the collaborative news site that allows you to file, track, and share public records requests – recently went open source in order to help more people take advantage of our right to public records.
From Muckrock: "Our hope is that you’ll find new and useful ways to extend our work, whether you’re a newsroom standing up an internal FOIA tracker or maybe even a government agency looking for a better way to intake and process records requests."
Their site is available on GitHub.
Mississippi Today is hiring a web developer and designer.
The Center for Public Integrity is looking for a news apps developer and data journalist.
The Texas Tribune is accepting applications for a data visuals developer.
INN is hiring a support and community lead.
If you're looking for general jobs in nonprofit news, the main INN newsletter had more than 16 job openings this week. Check it out and sign up here to get it in your inbox every Tuesday. Two INN newsletters are better than one!
READ: Anything from this speculative narratives reading list.
LISTEN: A classical mixtape for times such as these.
EAT: Crème Brûlée French Toast – a rich twist on a classic.
DRINK: Homemade Mexican Hot Chocolate. ☕
If you give a mouse a cookie...
What we're reading this week.
Adam: Rekha Murthy proposes a framework for how public media should conduct journalism in the age of Donald Trump. Worth a read even if you’re not in public media, as independent nonprofit news organizations puzzle through many of the same questions.
Ben: WordCamp US is happening today and this weekend. Not everyone can make it, so they’re streaming the sessions live. You do need to register to watch the streams, but the cost of admission is only your email address.
Gabe: Check out this fabulous list of UI inspiration specifically for news sites. You’ll find nifty transitions, beautiful layouts, and clean interfaces. Like what you see? We’d love to help.
Julia: AllSides lets you peruse daily news from Left, Right, and Center.
RC: Check out The Economist’s work from the Trust Project hackathon this past week in London.
Inndy: Remembering Robert the Robot, America's original toy robot sensation.
RC made a trip across the pond to participate in a hack event organized by The Trust Project in London earlier this week. The goal was to create tools that can help news organizations meet eight "trust factors" that consumers have identified as important in judging what to believe. RC worked with some folks from the BBC to develop a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to correlate reporters' topical expertise with story topics, such that contextual reporter bios can be displayed with related stories. Stayed tuned next week for the plugin release!
Kudos to ProPublica for their continuing coverage of hate crimes – who commits them, where they happen, and who should be tracking them.
INN is hiring a Support and Community Lead.
KERA is looking for a Digital Designer-Developer.
Oregon Public Broadcasting is looking for a Senior Digital Platform Developer.
If you're looking for general jobs in nonprofit news, the main INN newsletter had 18 job openings this week. Check it out and sign up here if you'd like to get that in your inbox every week. Receiving two newsletters from INN is twice as good as one!
LISTEN: Faster and faster and faster and faster and...
WATCH: Irish taste-testers test-taste American burgers.
EAT: Roasted honey sriracha brussels sprouts. Verified delicious.
DRINK: Apple cider mimosas. Everything's better with champagne.
Let's all take a break from our screens for a moment, shall we?
