Joellen Easton

Partners Manager
Public Insight Network

Joellen Easton builds partnerships with newsrooms, grows the source base, leads collaboration, innovates around the toolset, embeds empathy in PIN technology and newsrooms, and spreads the gospel.

As partners manager she leads our training and support team. This means she ensures that partner journalists learn best practices and deploy PIN effectively, recruits and brings on new news organizations, represents users in the PIN tools development process, leads evaluation efforts, and develops academic partnerships and course modules.

Her background is in anthropology, and she has produced for WGBH, PRI's The World, and freelance. She first worked with PIN at Marketplace as a PIN analyst for four years. She is degreed from Tufts and MIT.

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Affordable Care Act-inspired likes, don’t-likes

Finding sources who represent multiple sides of an issue and are willing to talk with a reporter can be challenging at times. Beacon reporter Robert Joiner worked with PIN sources to put a personal face on his article about polls and perceptions related to the health care law. More at stlbeacon.org.

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An inside look at a candidate

Rosemount, MN students from the PIN shared their experience with U.S. Senate candidate Kurt Bills as a teacher. They all told MPR News that Bills is friendly, funny and accessible, and has a knack for making a dense subject understandable. More at mpr.org.

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Making sense of upheaval at the University of Virginia

The sudden ouster of University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan took faculty, alumni and the public by surprise. Some are blaming partisan politics, while others see a culture clash between corporate-world board members and academics. WAMU's PIN sources weigh in on the latest. More at wamu.org.

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WAMU is up all night

WAMU in Washington, D.C. joined PIN only about six months ago.  In those six months, WAMU’s senior news editor Rebecca Blatt and online managing editor Seth Liss have experimented with using PIN as a resource for a wide variety of programming — from feature reporting to talk shows, to a pet segment. What’s struck me about their work, beyond the variety,... Read more »

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One school year, many education stories

This 25-minute radio documentary was the culmination of a 9-month reporting project following teachers, students and administrators to learn how budget cuts are affecting public schools. Both families in the series came either directly or indirectly from OPB's Public Insight Network. More at opb.org.