NICAR 2022: Best Practices for a Successful Collaboration #38
Description
Notes
Deborah Nelson (U of MD)
- "duet-driven" collaboration -- panelist description of paired collaborations, between field reporting and data gathering
Maggie Mulvihill (Boston U)
- Rule 1: Focused story idea (narrow, and collaborators that bring complementary skills)
- Rule 2: Story, structure & communication
- Rule 3: Memorandum of Understanding
- Rule 4: ???
- Rule 5: Superior Editorial Supervision
- Rule 6: Timeline (reasonable but rigid; for full process not just core costs; "backout schedule")
- Rule 7: Rigorous Fact-Checking Protocol
- Rule 8: Keeping Education "top of mind" (if there are education goals in the collaboration)
Cheryl Phillips (Stanford; Big Local News)
- Shared process -- set a model and collaborate to get it done
- Building reproducible systems that can be the recipe and tools for subsequent projects
- Playing to your strengths
- [lots of examples]
- Expanding collaboration to academics, attorneys and activists [law enforcement records]
- Phases [get from livestream]
- Allow for serendipity
Questions
- for academic/educators, how to coordinate around semester or quarter semester
- value of partnerships to non-journalist academics in helping them get their names out there around data/research projects ahead of their publishing cycles
- contractual data, we help satisfy the "public good" part of their research mission