A Tucson-based news outlet spent several months asking its community what they wanted to read about, and what issues they thought were important.
Caitlin Schmidt is co-founder, editor and publisher of Tucson Spotlight, which conducted the survey with the help of a grant.
She spoke with The Show about the finding and started with what the thought process was behind asking the community what it wanted, what it didn’t want, what they were thinking.
Full conversation
CAITLIN SCHMIDT: Yeah, so back in, I want to say 2020, when I was working at the Arizona Daily Star, I created a solutions journalism beat there and launched it with basically a listening session project similar to this. And we surveyed people around the community, trying to get ideas of stories, trying to get ideas of, you know, problems that they wanted to learn more about solutions to, etc., etc. And that went really well, and it was very helpful in guiding how we set up that beat and what we did with it…