Updates from TSI work

  • The News Blackout

    The News Blackout

    We’re launching a new recurring community experiment that we’re calling News Weird Ways. Rather than relying on website hits or people to come to news, the goal of NWW is […]

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  • Seeking: Good Discomfort

    Seeking: Good Discomfort

    I got to meet Isaac Saul of Tangle last week. A Bucks County native familiar with politically divided Pennsylvania communities, he was in town for a session with Intentional Philanthropy, […]

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  • Just the facts, ma’am.

    Just the facts, ma’am.

    What would it take for you to stop reading an article, news item, or story? Are there certain red flags, journalistic or stylistic, that are deal breakers for you that […]

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  • I want to believe

    I want to believe

    There is a house I pass by on my walk to work almost every morning that has a chalkboard on its front door. On the board, in barely legible script, […]

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  • LISTEN: Hear the Informed & Engaged recap pod

    LISTEN: Hear the Informed & Engaged recap pod

    Thank you for joining us for Informed & Engaged! Check out the podcast below summarizing the key takeaways and insights from our notetakers and your table doodles! Full disclosure, we […]

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  • What info sources could learn from Noah Wyle (or: how I learned to stop worrying and trust the doc)

    What info sources could learn from Noah Wyle (or: how I learned to stop worrying and trust the doc)

    I–like many viewers of “prestige” television–have been enjoying The Pitt, for its realism, its PA-setting, and Noah Wyle’s resurgence in a white coat that perfectly scratches the millennial nostalgia itch […]

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  • A one man news aggregator

    A one man news aggregator

    Jim McClure isn’t just managing Facebook groups. He’s maintaining York’s connective tissue. And in doing so, he’s showing us what it means to be truly informed and engaged.

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  • The Ordinary Work: Lessons from the Faith Community

    In much of the Press Forward Central PA region, Christian faith communities play a central civic role: often serving as key news sources through sermons, bulletin boards, and prayer walls. […]

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  • Building the future of local news with our community

    Building the future of local news with our community

    What can help local news become more responsive, relevant, and engaging for your daily life? Exploring those questions and more was the central aim of our first virtual listening session, […]

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