Ashley Alvarado is the director of community engagement at Southern California Public Radio (KPCC + LAist). She works to develop strategies and opportunities to engage new and existing audiences across platforms. Ashley is focused on engagement and source development as a means to diversify the sourcing in news coverage and on shows, help enrich programming, and grow audience. Among her efforts is the engagement-driven, community-centered live storytelling series Unheard LA, leading human-centered design projects, and Feeding the Conversation, an ongoing series of engagement-sourcing gatherings that bring together members of the community with KPCC journalists around specific themes or coverage areas. She also serves as board president of Journalism That Matters, on the steering committee of Gather, as mentor for Membership Puzzle Project’s Join the Beat cohort, and as a curator for American Press Institute’s BetterNews.org.
Website: http://www.scpr.org
- Saturday, Sep 14 - Ideas and Tools to Decode the 2020 Census
- Friday, Sep 13 - The Readers You Have Or the Readers You Want?
- Friday, Sep 13 - Table Talks: Audience
- Thursday, Sep 12 - Building Trust: Newsroom Tools for the “Fake News” Era
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