Thread by @ProPublica

1/ Hi. Do you like our storms — and how we use social to *do* journalism?

Do you think about how journalism can be done differently — and have experience doing it?

Well, happy Wednesday. propub.li/2CKixLb

2/ We’re hiring someone to lead our audience and engagement team. You’ll be overseeing more than a half-dozen journos — our social folks & our engagement reporters, who do deeply cool work:
niemanlab.org/2017/04/with-i…

3/ You’ll be working with all those folks — and collaborating with many others here to help deliver on ProPublica’s mission: to do journalism that makes waves and can have impact.

4/ Sometimes that means making a splash right on social, like when we clap back at people in power.

https://twitter.com/ProPublica/status/1073048845829967873

5/ You’ll oversee strategies to grow our audience overall: identifying, testing and expanding our efforts to connect with people who power our reporting and amplify our work.

6/ Sometimes that means finding a community where it already is, entering politely and organizing their stories into demonstrable patterns.

… like moms who almost died in childbirth posting heartbreaking notes to GoFundMe pages:
bit.ly/2ES5j0s

7/ … or laid off IBMers comparing notes about age discrimination in Facebook groups: bit.ly/2ERKVN5

8/ Sometimes that means reporting on the ground, building trust and finding sources: bit.ly/2EUUJH8

And sometimes it means giving people a platform to tell their own stories, powerfully and visually: propub.li/2To2yIl

9/ Sometimes it’s getting creative and telling a story on the same platform we’re reporting on, using visuals and video: facebook.com/propublica/vid…

Sometimes it means using email to give readers insights into how a story gets reported: go.propublica.org/webmail/125411…

10/ All of it’s transparency.

It’s journalism.

We want to do a lot more of it. We’re looking for someone who thinks in terms of data, analytics and processes to help us make it happen.

11/ Think it could be you? Apply here: bit.ly/2EPuoZU

Want to know more about us? Ask @ericuman, @Ariana_Tobin, @otraletra, @lhwaldron, @kengos, @loganjaffe, @ruthiebaron or @thebeenster all of your questions.