Lakshmi Sivadas·Nov 16, 2018Using Bots to Engage Communities2016 was the year of the bots in news. Quartz had first launched its “bot studio” with a $240,000 grant from the Knight foundation. In the…A response icon5A response icon5
Lakshmi Sivadas·Nov 13, 2018Electionland: Tracking the Strength of a DemocracyWe’ve had our eyes on November 6th ever since we started school at the CUNY j-school (aka the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism…A response icon1A response icon1
Lakshmi Sivadas·Oct 26, 2018Transparency & the Patient Safety CommunityAs social journalists at the Newmark J-school, CUNY, we do many things. The first of which is to rethink journalism as it has been thus…A response icon2A response icon2
Lakshmi Sivadas·Oct 19, 2018Diversity, Representation and The Embedded JournalistThe idea of getting into the thick of the action and truly becoming one with your cause has always been a source of intrigue to me…
Lakshmi Sivadas·Oct 6, 2018It’s Not Always Either-Or and It Doesn’t Have to BeIn 2017, twenty five Trump voters were brought together with twenty five Clinton voters as part of the Alabama/California Conversation…A response icon1A response icon1
Lakshmi Sivadas·Sep 28, 2018Learning Journalism from a Community OrganizerHow can journalists work better with communities? Ask a community organizer.A response icon2A response icon2
Lakshmi Sivadas·Sep 20, 2018Power to the People“Take a member of the public with you when you report, let them ask questions,” said Bridget Thoreson, engagement consultant at Hearken.A response icon6A response icon6
Lakshmi Sivadas·Sep 8, 2018Here’s How I’m Going to ListenI just completed reading over ten posts* on reddit starting from 2013 on various cases of medical malpractice. In some the victims…A response icon8A response icon8
Lakshmi Sivadas·Aug 30, 2018Can We Please Reinvent this Wheel?Eight years ago, it would have confounded me to think that someone would leave a career in journalism only to head back to graduate school…A response icon1A response icon1
