Work

Writing, speaking, podcasts, and press. A selected set first — then the full archive, by topic, if you want to dig.

Selected

Embrace the barbell Nieman Lab, Dec 2024
Building operational resilience into newsrooms Nieman Lab, Dec 2021
What Am I Going To Do With My Life??? The presentation that took on a life of its own, 2017
How to Succeed as Global Growth Editor, One Viral Slide Show at a Time The New York Times, Oct 2018
5 Tips to Help You Figure Out What to Do With Your Life The New York Times, Oct 2017
The Changing Dynamics of Newsroom Leadership SXSW, Mar 2022
How to be a leader, no matter your role or job title Lenfest Institute, Dec 2020
Post-platform product development The Rebooting, Jul 2024
Addressing Ethical Dilemmas: Image in the Age of A.I. PhotoVogue Festival, Nov 2023
It's Her Job to Get More People to Act Like You Right Now The New York Times, Oct 2018
International expansion without colonial overtones Nieman Lab, Dec 2016
Making better decisions quickly Slack Frontiers, Oct 2018
The Vacation Sunday Scaries: How to Make the Return From Travel Less Stressful Condé Nast Traveler, Jul 2023

The full archive

Journalism & the business of news

Embrace the barbell Nieman Lab, Dec 2024
Building operational resilience into newsrooms Nieman Lab, Dec 2021
Texas journalists are providing critical information about a disaster they're living through Washington Post, Feb 2021
'Thank God for The Texas Tribune': Power crisis shines light on local news CNN, Feb 2021
Living Through & Learning from Dynamic Political Discourse Page Up Conference, Dec 2020
Tech and the Future of News: The New Creators Reboot Conference, Nov 2020
Technology & transformation — How will we get news in the 2020s? FT Future of News, Oct 2020
Here's how the Texas Tribune took a key fundraising event digital IndieGraf, Aug 2020
Informed and Engaged, Episode 4 Knight Foundation, Jul 2020
There is no magic — you've got this Nieman Lab, Dec 2018
Hint: It's about your brand Nieman Lab, Dec 2017
How Millennials Get News American Press Institute, Mar 2015

Leadership & career

What Am I Going To Do With My Life??? The presentation that took on a life of its own, 2017
How to Succeed as Global Growth Editor, One Viral Slide Show at a Time The New York Times, Oct 2018
5 Tips to Help You Figure Out What to Do With Your Life The New York Times, Oct 2017
The Changing Dynamics of Newsroom Leadership SXSW, Mar 2022
Building the Career You Want ONA, Nov 2021
A crash course on navigating your career Sidekick / Morning Brew, Nov 2021
How to be a leader, no matter your role or job title Lenfest Institute, Dec 2020
So You're a Student in a Pandemic. Where Do You Go From Here? AAJA, Aug 2020
Little Ways You Can Get Your Life Under Control Workshop
An editor's guide to creating an online portfolio Poynter, Aug 2018
Time to grow: How to dig deep and stretch yourself SRCCON, Jun 2018
What's next: How to nurture growth in the face of burnout SRCCON:Work, Dec 2017

AI, product & tech

Post-platform product development The Rebooting, Jul 2024
Addressing Ethical Dilemmas: Image in the Age of A.I. PhotoVogue Festival, Nov 2023
When content is product: editor-in-chief, product manager = product editor? International Journalism Festival, Jul 2022
Women in Product Innovating in Newsrooms SXSW, Mar 2022
How The Texas Tribune aligns product and editorial for audience retention Digital Content Next, Feb 2021
Newsletters: The New Flagship Media Product SXSW, Mar 2021
Product Management: Becoming audience-oriented, data-driven and product-focused ISOJ, Jul 2020
Minimum delightful to maximum impact: What testing via email taught us about news apps BuzzFeed, Jun 2015
What we learned from a week of prototyping a newsletter in public BuzzFeed, Mar 2015
Smart filters on the rise Nieman Lab, Dec 2014

Audience growth & strategy

Chapter 134: Reader, Wherefore Art Thou? Writerland, Jan 2024
LinkedIn and Substack to the Rescue of News? Second Rough Draft, Feb 2023
Making Analytics Useful to Journalists ONA, Oct 2020
Platforms are now more about private sharing Digiday, Jun 2019
Keynote at ISOJ ISOJ, Apr 2019
It's Her Job to Get More People to Act Like You Right Now The New York Times, Oct 2018
How to build audiences with single-subject news products American Press Institute, May 2015

International expansion

Seeking Growth in an International Audience ONA Insights, May 2018
International expansion without colonial overtones Nieman Lab, Dec 2016
How BuzzFeed breaks news in multiple languages Fortune, Jul 2016
Email > App > Global Adaptation Society for News Design, Apr 2016

Newsroom culture

Editing HERStory Mizzou Women in Media & ONA, Mar 2019
Making better decisions quickly Slack Frontiers, Oct 2018
Behind the scenes of the BuzzFeed phenomenon Strelka Institute, Aug 2016
Infusing design into your newsroom culture: 7 good questions with John Maeda American Press Institute, May 2014

Just for fun

The Vacation Sunday Scaries: How to Make the Return From Travel Less Stressful Condé Nast Traveler, Jul 2023