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Probably a good time to point out that The @ChicagoReporter needs your help to deliver information services like our Illinois ZIP code lookup tool (and to hire someone to come up with better names).
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Thanks to partners like @unichicago, @wbez, @suntimes, @TheTRiiBE, @BlockClubCHI, and possibly more (I& #39;m still catching up and will shout out more as we see who is embedding!), we& #39;re reaching a substantial audience. They need your support too.
Importantly, when we& #39;re sharing resources and data like this, anything you can invest in your local news goes so much further. Our traffic was 99% mobile last night, a lot of it coming from the collar counties. So far today, a lot of it has been from the immediate metro.
That means that by sharing across publications, we& #39;ve all been able to reach to rather different audiences that have a shared need for fundamental information and synthesize their feedback into useful improvements - with more to come. It& #39;s not collaboration, it& #39;s collective work.
For example: Thanks to @jayohday, who doesn& #39;t even live in Illinois, and my colleague @TheVoiceofJosh, we haven& #39;t had to worry about fact-checking the historical numbers for weeks. Which means the folks delivering you relevant news where you live can do more of _that_.
There& #39;s more: @pauliebe is making the design ~approximately~ 14.3 times better and working through some thorny data issues; @AsraaReports is dialing everything in so it& #39;s clear and accurate and making sure those the hidden dimensions of the user experience are on target.
The @ChicagoReporter& #39;s editor+publisher @thefuturewasnow has been leading the way. His vision of one-to-one communication channels with our audience and multilingual content has been critical in all dimensions of our reporting, especially using info needs to drive the strategy.
