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Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran

Amy Gahran is a journalist, editor, trainer, entrepreneur, strategist, and media consultant based in Boulder, Colorado. In addition to writing articles and doing educational programming for [email protected], she also covers mobile technology for CNN.com and Entrepreneur.com, and was a cofounder of the hyperlocal news site OaklandLocal.com. In 2006 she won a Knight News Challenge awarded for the Boulder Carbon Tax Tracker project. Her blog is Contentious.com. Twitter: @agahran

Amy Gahran's Blogs and Trainings

NPR identifies story types that drive local engagement

Today NPR Digital Services published the results of a study to gauge which kinds of local stories drive online engagement. Read More

AP's Overview tool helps DocumentCloud makes sense of text documents

When you're tracking a story that involves reading a huge volume of text documents, it's a challenge to both manage Read More

Fostering open data: what community news can do

Local governments produce lots of data that can support compelling community stories -- but what if that data isn't easy Read More