Do user testing with journalists

[tdooner]

• What journalists work this beat?

[tdooner]

People who have written about campaign finance in Oakland:

• Louise Rothman-Riemer is president of the League of Women Voters in Oakland. (June 2018)

[tdooner]

Hey @sfdoran, do you know any journalists off-hand that we should talk to about Open Disclosure alert?

[TristanLynx]

East Bay Times:

Tolan, Casey Politics reporter 510-208-6425 ctolan@bayareanewsgroup.com

Peele, Thomas Investigative reporter 510-208-6458 tpeele@bayareanewsgroup.com

Gafni, Matthias Investigative reporter 925-952-5026 . mgafni@bayareanewsgroup.com

[sfdoran]

These journalists follow Oakland politics closely and often report on campaign finance and ethics issues:

EBX: Darwin BondGraham Steve Tavares https://ebcitizen.com/

EB Times: David DeBolt ddebolt@bayareanewsgroup.com

Chronicle: Kimberly Veklerov and Rachel Swan

Don't forget Oakland North, the UCB School of Journalism's new site: https://oaklandnorth.net/category/politics/

They've covered Open Disclosure and campaign finance in several articles.

Other journalists covering Oakland politics:

Scott Morris https://www.scottmorris.news/

Zennie Abraham - has reviewed OpenDisclosure on his blog a couple times. https://zennie62blog.com/

[sfdoran]

@tdooner If you connect with any journalists would it make sense to talk to them about Open Disclosure as well while you've got them?

[tdooner]

I've reached out to many folks in this thread, with links to Open Disclosure and the new Open Disclosure Alert homepage..

• [x] Casey Tolan
• [x] Oakland North
• [x] Darwin BondGraham
• [x] Mattias Gafni
• [x] David DeBolt
• [x] Thomas Peele
• [ ] Steve Tavares
• [ ] Kimberly Veklerov
• [ ] Rachel Swan
• [ ] Scott Morris
• [ ] Zennie Abraham

Based on the results I'll update the email for the second batch.

[namdeirf]

One person to add: Ali Tadayon https://twitter.com/OakTribAli

[namdeirf]

Another to add: Serdar Tumgoren | tumgoren@stanford.edu https://comm.stanford.edu/faculty-tumgoren/