Category: Project Management
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Visual Management: Racial backlash grips Kiel, Wisconsin
In 2022 I was the photo editor for a three-part series exploring the roots of racial and gender-related backlash that gripped the small town of Kiel, Wisconsin, which led the community to rally around an embattled superintendent and to the resignation of two extremist school board members. Reported by Mario Koran, with photographs by freelancer…
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Visual Management: ‘Something has to be done’
In 2022 I worked with Wisconsin Watch photo intern Isaac Wasserman to visually direct the story Something has to be done’: Living along Madison’s Starkweather Creek, one of Wisconsin’s most polluted waterways. In 2019, Starkweather Creek contained higher levels of PFOA and PFOS — two more scrutinized types of PFAS — than any other waters…
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Project Management: Open and Shut podcast
I was the digital project manager for the award-winning collaborative podcast “Open and Shut” – produced by Wisconsin Watch and Wisconsin Public Radio. Open and Shut is a seven-part investigative series that took more than three years to make. My role included project managing the web presence, text, photos, documents and deadlines across two news…
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Project Management: Newspack CMS implementation
On Feb. 18, 2020, Wisconsin Watch launched a new WordPress implementation and content management system for our website, wisconsinwatch.org. I was the project manager for the migration, liaising with the business team, tech leads and designers from the new CMS provider, Newspack by Automattic, as well as working with our internal stakeholders on design and…
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Project Management: Outbreak Wisconsin
Outbreak Wisconsin, is a collaborative project by Wisconsin Watch and WPR, that is following Wisconsin residents as they navigate life during the coronavirus pandemic. The residents contribute diary entries, in the form of audio, video and photos of themselves, their families and personal and professional lives. That content is supplemented by interviews and digital content…
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Visual Management: The Cannabis Question
The Cannabis Question — an investigative reporting series from Wisconsin Watch In 2019, for the first time in a decade, Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin seriously debated whether to legalize marijuana for medical uses. Investigative reporting students at UW-Madison worked with Wisconsin Watch to produce 15 stories exploring the history of cannabis in our state and…
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Project Management: “Behind the story” video series at Wisconsin Watch
In the summer of 2019 I supervised Wisconsin Watch’s first multimedia fellow, Alisa Ivanitskaya. I assigned Ivanitskaya — a Fulbright fellow from Russia — the task of creating a video series that explained how Wisconsin Watch reporters conduct their investigations — with the goal of explaining the role of journalists, and the impact of…
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Project Management: Implementing the MerlinOne Digital Asset Management System at Wisconsin Watch
In 2018, after two years of research, I led the implementation of the MerlinOne digital asset management system for the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism — assuring that all the Center’s digital content is centrally located, highly searchable, and totally secure. The Center now stores more than 8,000 digital assets in its growing digital archive,…
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Project Management: Implementing The Trust Project for Wisconsin Watch
In 2018 I led the project management for Wisconsin Watch’s implementation of The Trust Project, an effort to increase transparency and trust in journalism. This involved an almost year-long collaboration with a global consortium of journalists to enact specific rules and requirements on the Wisconsin Watch site — joining a select group of organizations committed…
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Los Lecheros: A documentary film on rising immigration tensions in America’s Dairyland
Los Lecheros from WisconsinWatch on Vimeo. Now showing online: Our film on rising immigration tensions in America’s Dairyland “Los Lecheros” (Dairy Farmers) was co-produced with Jim Cricchi and Susan Peters of Twelve Letter Films in 2017 in partnership with Wisconsin Watch. The Center’s reporting on the issue started in 2009 with a series of stories…