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[not meeting this week] Data-Driven Nature Journalism w/ South Side Weekly #105

Closed jmithani closed 7 years ago

jmithani commented 7 years ago

About the group

For the South Side Weekly's second annual Nature Issue, we are looking for ideas and collaborators to help us with a data-driven, digital project about a topic relating to environmental justice, ecosystems, wildlife, biking, etc. on or relevant to the South Side. The issue will be released on May 31st, and we will be at every ChiHack leading up to then. We hope to maintain this working group after the release of the nature issue, so if you are interested in civic journalism please come speak to us -- no experience required!

The South Side Weekly is a nonprofit newsprint magazine dedicated to supporting cultural and civic engagement on the South Side, and to providing educational opportunities for developing journalists, writers, and artists.

Group leaders

Baci Weiler, Director of Staff Support (baci.weiler@southsideweekly.com) Emily Lipstein, Social Media Editor/Nature Issue Coordinator (emily.lipstein@southsideweekly.com) Jasmine Mithani, Data Visualization (jazzmithani@gmail.com) Sam Stecklow, Social Media Editor (sam.stecklow@southsideweekly.com)

Who we're looking for

Anyone is welcome! We want to hear your ideas for a story. We are looking for this to be a data-driven project, so anyone with the relevant skills would be especially appreciated. We may also have opportunities for writing.

Tools

Our website is hosted on WordPress, and we've used Carto, MapBox, d3, and QGIS for other stories in the past. We're open to using anything that will get the job done!

Relevant Links

Website: http://southsideweekly.com Current pitches for our 2017 Nature Issue: http://bit.ly/2nRdsrL Nature Issue 2016: https://issuu.com/southsideweekly/docs/ssw_5-25-16_web

Where we meet

Focus 01

Chi Hack Night slack channel

Find us and introduce yourself at #south-side-weekly!

jmithani commented 7 years ago

@derekeder Could we add a few tags? Mapping / GIS / Data Analysis / Data Visualization / Beginner Friendly (that's our aim)

derekeder commented 7 years ago

Done!

derekeder commented 7 years ago

@jmithani is this group still meeting?

derekeder commented 7 years ago

Closing for now. Feel free to re-open if you're planning on pitching this at hack night next week.