This is a now page, inspired by Derek Sivers. It shows you (and reminds me) what I’m focused on right now. Last updated on 20th November 2022.
✨ Inspiration ✨
To be on the lookout for inspiration (and learning opportunities) in journalism is at the core of what I do – it’s also something I’ve really struggled with this year. I seldom felt inspired. (The never ending pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the climate crisis and a general feeling of doom might have also contributed.)
But it also motivated me to broaden my inspiration horizon. While I know of nearly everything that’s happening in and around journalism in the USA, I know very little about interesting things happening in my neighboring countries here in Europe.
Since I failed to find an existing overview – tadaaa – I started a newsletter that curates interesting/innovative approaches to (digital) journalism in Europe. đź“® If you like, you can sign up here.
🪄AI🪄
My work focus is on digital format developing and right now I’m trying out ways AI can support teams in the (sometimes lengthy) developing process. So far the results are a mixed bag – for ex. AI is a great help when summarising real user interviews and can build pretty good personae based on the interviews. But when asked to build a persona from scratch, with guidelines but without actual interviews, the results are very basic and mostly based on stereotypes.
👉If you’re also focused on the topic – I would love to exchange learnings -> Drop me a line mail(at)isabelhummel.de
đź‘‹ Connection đź‘‹
This year much of my work focus has been centered around connection – at our regional public broadcaster I now run a monthly meet up for social format developers and I curate the monthly Socialletter. It’s an internal newsletter aiming to foster more understanding between journalists working in linear and non-linear media at our broadcaster. And hopefully spark some crossover-creativity.
I also started reaching out to (former) colleagues to meet up IRL around certain topics – and it’s giving me such an energy boost. So I decided to search out more connecting opportunities in the next year.
I’ll post my plans here and if you happen to attend too and fancy a chat – let me know:
Next stops:23.-25.11.22 Brussels – European Journalism Symposium / Assises EuropĂ©ennes Du Journalisme
19.-23.04.2023 Perugia – International Journalism FestivalÂ
05.-07.06.2023 Berlin – re:publica