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The Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer

Five benchmarks for measuring representation and equity in local news coverage

As local news organizations assess and analyze equity and inclusion in their culture and in their coverage, who are their research partners…

Jun 21, 2022

Five benchmarks for measuring representation and equity in local news coverage

Jun 21, 2022

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The evolution of our local news geographic equity mapping & analysis tool

From simple points on a map, to adding filters, to incorporating census data about communities alongside community coverage.

Apr 29, 2022

The evolution of our local news geographic equity mapping & analysis tool

Apr 29, 2022

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The Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer

Lenfest Local Lab 2018–2022: A look back at our location-based products that centered on the…

To help spur and support ongoing local news innovation, we are breaking down the ideas, goals and outcomes from each of our projects…

Apr 27, 2022

Lenfest Local Lab 2018–2022: A look back at our location-based products that centered on the…

Apr 27, 2022

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The Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer

The Lenfest Local Lab winds down

Thank you to everyone who supported our work since 2018, including our collaborators, colleagues, funders and community partners. Also…

Feb 3, 2022

The Lenfest Local Lab winds down

Feb 3, 2022

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The Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer

The opportunities and limitations of considering geography as an aspect of equity and…

Seeing the locations mentioned in your news stories on a map provides strong signals about the communities and topics you prioritize.

Sep 14, 2021

The opportunities and limitations of considering geography as an aspect of equity and…

Sep 14, 2021

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The Lenfest Local Lab joins The Philadelphia Inquirer Product Team

By embedding within the organization, the Lab will explore how experimentation and innovation can be operationalized and will share what…

Mar 9, 2021

The Lenfest Local Lab joins The Philadelphia Inquirer Product Team

Mar 9, 2021

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The Lenfest Local Lab, The Brown Institute and the Philadelphia Inquirer are partnering to build…

Our collaborative project won the Google GNI Innovation Challenge, securing $300,000 to build and test machine learning-based tools that…

Dec 15, 2020

The Lenfest Local Lab, The Brown Institute and the Philadelphia Inquirer are partnering to build…

Dec 15, 2020

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The Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer

How we built a tool to spot geographic clusters—and gaps—in local news.

Leveraging breakthroughs in NLP and machine learning, the Lenfest Lab and Brown Institute built an analysis tool that maps locations found…

Jul 29, 2020

How we built a tool to spot geographic clusters—and gaps—in local news.

Jul 29, 2020

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The Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer

The Lenfest Local Lab and The Brown Institute are partnering on a project to map local news

Major advances in computation have made mapping local news easier. What can we learn from analyzing where stories fall on a map?

Jan 29, 2020

The Lenfest Local Lab and The Brown Institute are partnering on a project to map local news

Jan 29, 2020

Sarah Schmalbach
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The Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer

Lenfest Lab | Job Opening: Neighborhood Newsletter Editor

A one-year post to oversee a hyperlocal newsletter collaboration with The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Dec 17, 2019

Lenfest Lab | Job Opening: Neighborhood Newsletter Editor

Dec 17, 2019

Sarah Schmalbach

Sarah Schmalbach

Leading the Lenfest Local Lab (@lenfestlab) for the Lenfest Institute (@lenfestinst). Philadelphian and former product @GdnMobileLab @usatoday @phillydotcom.

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