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El Tímpano

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Deep Listening to Map a Community’s Information Needs

How El Tímpano asked a local community about the information they want, and what we learned in the process — This is the second in a series documenting our efforts to map the information needs of Oakland’s Latino immigrants. Click here for the first post on the climate of fear, misinformation and mistrust in media that we found in initial conversations with community leaders. At first glance, Oakland may be…

Journalism

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Deep Listening to Map a Community’s Information Needs
Deep Listening to Map a Community’s Information Needs
Journalism

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El Tímpano

·May 11, 2022

The Roadblocks to Relief

Latino immigrants sound off on the challenges of accessing social services intended to help through the pandemic — Research & report by tania quintana For Roberto, a 55-year-old father and restaurant busser whose hours were slashed during the pandemic, the few thousand dollars promised by the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) would have lifted a heavy burden off his shoulders.* Instead, Roberto’s attempt to access the funds only…

Information Access

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The Roadblocks to Relief
The Roadblocks to Relief
Information Access

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El Tímpano

·Mar 29, 2022

El Tímpano welcomes new staff

El Tímpano welcomed four new team members in early 2022, resulting in more than doubling the size of our organization, diversifying our leadership, and expanding our capacity for growth, sustainability, and impact as we create journalism with, for, and about the Bay Area’s Latino and Mayan immigrant communities.

Journalism

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El Tímpano welcomes new staff
El Tímpano welcomes new staff
Journalism

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El Tímpano

·Feb 14, 2022

El Tímpano is Growing

First we built a community. Now we’re building a newsroom. And expanding to the wider Bay Area. — When Teresa, a housewife in her late 50s, signed up for El Tímpano’s local news and participatory reporting platform last spring, the COVID-19 vaccine rollout was just getting underway, and it was chaotic. The first message she received from El Tímpano informed her of how to make an appointment at…

Journalism Innovation

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El Tímpano is Growing
El Tímpano is Growing
Journalism Innovation

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El Tímpano

·Dec 8, 2021

I dream of newsrooms that hold complexity

A Q&A with El Tímpano’s community organizer, tania quintana Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from, and what experiences have shaped your approach to community organizing? I was born and raised in East Oakland, and lived in the same apartment complex throughout my childhood and young adulthood…

Community Engagement

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I dream of newsrooms that hold complexity
I dream of newsrooms that hold complexity
Community Engagement

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El Tímpano

·Nov 8, 2021

Connecting Community through Civic Partnerships

How El Tímpano is strengthening a web of community connections — Disconnected. No one word better summarizes what El Tímpano heard from the hundreds of immigrants who contributed to our information ecosystem assessment four years ago. In community meetings, surveys, and conversations, Oakland’s Spanish-speaking residents repeatedly brought up their desires to get involved, take action, raise their concerns to elected officials…

Community Engagement

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Connecting Community through Civic Partnerships
Connecting Community through Civic Partnerships
Community Engagement

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El Tímpano

·Jul 20, 2021

Comunidades Informadas

El Tímpano’s community-centered approach to combat misinformation in Latino and Mayan immigrant communities — In the past decade, misinformation has emerged as a leading threat to democracy and public health. And the news industry has invested in countering this ill. We have created fact-checking sites, verification organizations, and disinformation beats, and strengthened our skills in identifying misinformation.

Misinformation

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Comunidades Informadas
Comunidades Informadas
Misinformation

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El Tímpano

·Apr 26, 2021

How systems thinking is guiding El Tímpano’s reporting on health & overcrowded housing

From icebergs to feedback loops, El Tímpano intern Sonya Lustig details how we’re working to understand this largely invisible crisis — By Sonya Lustig Three months ago, El Tímpano began investigating the prevalence of overcrowded housing in Oakland’s Latino and Mayan immigrant communities and how those housing conditions affect the health of residents, throughout and beyond the current COVID-19 pandemic.

Systems Thinking

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From icebergs to feedback loops
From icebergs to feedback loops
Systems Thinking

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El Tímpano

·Jan 13, 2021

Introducing El Tímpano’s Advisory Council

Community is at the heart of El Tímpano, our mission, and how we work. We began not by launching a website but by building relationships within Oakland’s Latino and Mayan immigrant communities, and working with residents, community leaders, and local partners to design local news with and for those communities…

El Timpano

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Introducing El Tímpano’s Advisory Council
Introducing El Tímpano’s Advisory Council
El Timpano

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El Tímpano

·Dec 9, 2020

A Systems Thinking Approach to Cover Overcrowding & COVID-19

Examining the crisis before our eyes, and those that have been brewing behind closed doors — When Orlando Ruiz’s brother brought COVID-19 home from his janitorial job in May, self-isolation was out of the question. He lives in a house in East Oakland with his parents, brothers, and their families. …

Systems Thinking

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A Systems Thinking Approach to Cover Overcrowding & COVID-19
A Systems Thinking Approach to Cover Overcrowding & COVID-19
Systems Thinking

5 min read

Madeleine Bair

Madeleine Bair

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Journalist & civic media innovator. Oakland native. Cumbiambera.

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