PublicSource (J-Corps Summer Internship Program)
Editorial Intern, Pittsburgh, PA/Remote June 2022-August 2022
Conducted interviews, pitched stories, fact checked stories, staged stories on website, and wrote articles for local nonprofit newsroom with a focus on Pittsburgh and Allegheny County region. Assisted with curating the Selves Newsletter, which focuses on topics relating to gender and identity. Verified information for Board Explorer, a database that contains contact information of those who serve on various unelected boards in Pittsburgh and the Allegheny County region. Assisted reporter Charlie Wolfson with finding documents that represent MOU agreements between Pittsburgh Police and charter schools. (Story: Pittsburgh Police and city schools lack state-mandated agreement)
Writer/Reporter
New and different summer programs aim to address COVID learning loss
Disability pride lifts young people, families in Pittsburgh area
Women's Law Project is bringing maternal advocacy to Pittsburgh
Kelly Davis feels she was destined to be an advocate for reproductive rights
Fact Checker:
At PublicSource, the fact checking process is very thorough. I was assigned stories by reporters (full-time or freelance) to fact-check for accuracy before they are published. The reporters send us the fact checkers materials from their reporting, i.e. interviews, transcripts, links to data/statistics or webpages. It all gets compiled in a spreadsheet. Line by line, we go through each sentence, verifying its accuracy, and if there are any discrepancies, we work it out with the reporters who wrote the piece.
Selves Newsletter Curation
Written By Me
Assisted on curating these other ‘Selves’ newsletters
I assisted the editor in chief of PublicSource with curating the Selves Newsletter. Each week I would do research of the most important stories relating to gender and identity and make up short sentences that intrigue audiences to a particular story.
