ProPublica announced the hiring of Melody Kramer as a product manager, working on crowdsourcing and engagement tools, from secure tiplines to source databases. Kramer started in December 2024.
Previously, she worked in digital strategy and audience engagement for newsrooms, the federal government and the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that runs Wikipedia. She started her career as a humor writer and director for NPR’s “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me.”
Most recently, she helped lead a pop-up newsroom to support journalists in Western North Carolina in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, providing critical text-only information to residents who lost internet access. And she was the librarian-in-residence for the Knight Election Hub, where she connected journalists with academic election experts…