Injustice Watch

We're thrilled to announce Maggie Sivit is joining Injustice Watch as engagement editor! Maggie is a talented multimedia journalist who specializes in community-centered journalism. She joins us from WBEZ's Curious City, where she was the digital and engagement producer, reporting community-driven stories about Chicago. She'll be working on expanding our digital engagement efforts (including on here) and strategizing about new ways to build our audience. Please help us welcome Maggie to our team! https://lnkd.in/gHWfht5J

In a recently published series, “The Tenant Trap,” Injustice Watch details a yearlong investigation into the unfair treatment of thousands of #Chicago renters living in unsafe and decaying apartments while facing skyrocketing rents and a court system designed to protect the rights of landlords first. #Homeownership Take a look: https://bit.ly/3Av1Tzy

We loved working with Reema Saleh to record audio versions of this series! You can listen to her read the entire project here: https://lnkd.in/gaSrydRf

NEW: Check out our latest project, "The Tenant Trap," a yearlong investigation into the unfair treatment of thousands of Chicago renters living in unsafe and decaying apartments while facing skyrocketing rents and a court system designed to protect the rights of landlords first. The five-part series follows groups of tenants as they try to fight for better housing conditions, only to find the courts requiring them to live up to their end of the lease contract while allowing landlords to use loopholes, delays, and excuses to avoid laws designed to make living conditions safe and habitable. https://lnkd.in/gJ3WYutV

There's still time to apply to be our engagement editor! The engagement editor will work closely with our editors and reporters to enhance our investigative reporting and package our work for different platforms. We're looking for someone with good writing and communication skills who can break down complex topics clearly and concisely and who understands how to build community trust and engage with audiences on different platforms and through different media. Salary: $75,000 to $90,000, commensurate with experience Application deadline is this Sunday, July 14 at 11:59 p.m. CT. Click to learn more and apply: https://lnkd.in/gsjyTYNU

✨ In this week's LION newsletter ✨ 💚 Borderless Magazine, Injustice Watch, and The Lansing Journal are inaugural Press Forward Chicago grantees ⭐ The Medill Local News Initiative seeks another batch of "Bright Spots" 🤝 The Texas Tribune is stepping out from behind the screen with in-person engagement strategies https://lnkd.in/gGJ8yhpG

We had a great first day to kick off our Local Data Journalism Initiative with partners UChicago Data Science Institute, including energizing meetings with Chicago journalists, and a pinball break at the end 😀 Looking forward to our work with Maya Dukmasova of Injustice Watch, Sarah Freishtat, Dan Petrella, & A.D. Quig of Chicago Tribune and Matt Kiefer & Alden Loury of WBEZ Chicago. A warm welcome to our senior data scientist Eric Langowski; research associate Divij S.; student fellows Abigail Beckler, Kevin Bryson, Joseph De Leon, Fatima Irfan, Caitlin P., Regina Isabel Medina Rosales, Akshay Ramdev, Anita Restrepo Lachman, Austin Steinhart; and faculty advisers Philip Garboden and Justin Marlowe. Looking forward to a great summer ahead! Learn more about the Local Data Journalism Initiative: https://lnkd.in/eFxY3M-y

We're thrilled to be among these outstanding grantees, and deeply grateful to Press Forward Chicago. Most importantly, we can't wait to share the outstanding journalism that this grant supports!

Congrats to ALL of this year's Peter Lisagor Award winners! Special shoutout to past CJA award winners: Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune Media Group Stacy St. Clair, Chicago Tribune Rummana Hussain, Chicago Sun-Times Tiffany Walden, The TRiiBE David Jackson, Injustice Watch Sarah Conway, City Bureau Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica Quinn Myers, Block Club Chicago NFP Neil Steinberg, Chicago Sun-Times And more! Check out the full list here: https://lnkd.in/giTzy4a3 #journalism #reporters #media #newsmedia #awards

Our executive director Juliet Sorensen will be stepping down this summer after five years of outstanding leadership. We’ll miss her!- but are excited to begin the search for her successor. The full job description is here, and the search committee welcomes inquiries. Spread the word! https://lnkd.in/gZiK-yCG