How Documented is reinventing immigration coverage.

About this episode

The episode discusses how Documented is innovating immigration coverage through various digital platforms.

Some of the most interesting journalism experiments aren’t taking place on the websites of publications. Instead, they’re happening on Facebook and WhatsApp and Reddit and WeChat and even Nextdoor, which I didn’t realize was anything other than a place for Karens to complain about loitering. Documented, an eight-year-old digital outlet that covers and serves immigrants in New York City and beyond, is behind many of these experiments—from producing a Chinese-language newsletter on WeChat to st...

Topics covered

• immigration coverage
• journalism experiments
• digital media
• community engagement
• New York City
• immigrant services

Keywords

• immigration
• journalism
• Documented
• New York City
• digital outlet
• community
• WeChat
• Facebook
• WhatsApp

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Documented

Places: New York City, WeChat, Facebook, WhatsApp, Reddit, Nextdoor

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