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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…

8 min readJun 21, 2022

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Five benchmarks for measuring representation and equity in local news coverage

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Sarah Schmalbach
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The Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer

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.

7 min readApr 29, 2022

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

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Sarah Schmalbach
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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…

12 min readApr 27, 2022

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

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Sarah Schmalbach
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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…

2 min readFeb 3, 2022

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The Lenfest Local Lab winds down

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Sarah Schmalbach
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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.

12 min readSep 14, 2021

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

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Sarah Schmalbach
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The Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer

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…

6 min readMar 9, 2021

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The Lenfest Local Lab joins The Philadelphia Inquirer Product Team

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Sarah Schmalbach
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The Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer

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…

9 min readDec 15, 2020

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

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Sarah Schmalbach
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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…

7 min readJul 29, 2020

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

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Sarah Schmalbach
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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?

7 min readJan 29, 2020

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

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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.

6 min readDec 17, 2019

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Lenfest Lab | Job Opening: Neighborhood Newsletter Editor

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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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