How callouts make you a better journalist, a very short thread

Part One: Callouts help you empower your journalism and make your reporting better. You find humans living on the ground hurt / impacted by the news you're covering.

@dlagnew + @nachoaguilar found several sources for this story via the Tribune's callout. https://twitter.com/dlagnew/status/1362216089036468229

Part Two: Callouts tell you what your community needs + give you the tools you need to help readers. https://twitter.com/sallybeauv/status/1362206828277415937

We added this question yesterday to our ongoing pandemic callout regarding the power outages: What immediate help do you need most?

Hundreds wrote in. That informed how we updated this. https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1362535762697322496

. @sallybeauv had the smart idea to send this resource guide to Texans yesterday. We just sent it back out to another 100+ Texans who wrote in to us about what they need. https://twitter.com/sallybeauv/status/1362206829942562817

This is the fundamental loop of Audience Engagement Journalism

1). You ask your readers for help doing journalism
2). Your readers answer your questions
3). You use those answers to empower / inform your reporting
4). You report back out to the community that helped you

I forgot to add —30— to that tweet, but FIN! Go do good work and help people please!!!

Actually —

I wished I hadn't numbered the prior tweet in this thread, because a true loop doesn't end.

So, 5). You hear how your audience responds to what you report back and use that to ask a new question. Start again. Repeat until we've solved all the world's problems. FIN!