United States

Lighthouse Reports

Global funders come with agendas. We avoided those, and used our funding for community-driven investigations

Eva Constantaras is Data Editor at Lighthouse Reports. She has spent most of her career as an itinerant data journalist, setting up data teams in newsrooms in Global Majority countries. She is also a Google Data Journalism Scholar, a Fulbright Fellow, and a winner of the Sigma Data Journalism and Philip Meyer Award. She is currently based in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Chile

Documented

How Documented rebuilt its infrastructure and workflows to allow immigrant voices in every decision-making process

Nicolás Ríos is Documented's Chief Product and Education Officer. Formerly Director of Audience & Community, Nicolas has led engagement, research, product development and content creation with a community-driven focus on audience needs from underserved immigrants.

Under Nicolás's lead, Documented has successfully integrated a community-driven model into its DNA and gained national and international recognition along the way. This approach, allows newsrooms and organizations at large to identify audience needs and integrate them into their content creation and distribution strategies, elevating trust and expanding reach to communities that wouldn't otherwise be interested in news content. 

Philippines

317 Group

What you can learn from Swifties and BTS Army about turning communities into diehard fans

Marga Deona is the Chief Operating Officer of 317 Group, an ecosystem of digital marketing, influencer management, and content creation ventures. She also serves as a consultant for the Media Development Investment Fund. Before 317, she spent over a decade at Rappler, where she led product management for multimedia, pioneering audience-centric formats. Her work bridges media, politics, and fandom, and she is on a mission to prove that the future of journalism belongs to those who understand how people feel, not just how they click.

Australia

Lighthouse Reports

Your reporting is nothing without impact. This is how you stand up for a community through journalism

Tessa is the Impact Editor at Lighthouse Reports, an investigative team leading global collaborations for deeply reported, public interest investigations. As the impact editor, Tessa shapes investigative strategies to ensure findings reach the right audiences and are strategically positioned to create meaningful change. Tessa predominantly focuses on issues of power imbalance within the world's food systems, but also works across the conflict, war winners, and borders newsrooms.

United Kingdom

Good Commons

How to stop reporting on your community and start working with them (feat. JamiiAfrica)

Madeline Earp helps people and societies express themselves safely and effectively in the digital age. She promotes infrastructure designed for healthy, informed communities as part of the public interest tech team at International Media Support, and shares community-building resources via Good Commons, an IMS collaboration with Splice and JamiiAfrica.

She has 18 years of digital and media rights experience in Europe and North America, including roles on the Asia and Tech desks at the Committee to Protect Journalists in New York, and managing Freedom House's Asia portfolio for Freedom on the Net. Earp has an MA in East Asian studies from Harvard and a BA in English literature from Cambridge.