Ask a newsroom technology leader

A short reader survey about the challenges you’re working through and the support you wish existed.

02 Nov 2025 — 1 min read

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the kinds of problems people in mission-driven organizations are trying to solve, around technology, leadership, product strategy, and building tools that actually serve our communities.

My lens has been newsrooms, because that’s where I’ve spent most of my time recently, but I suspect many mission-driven organizations face similar challenges.

Most of the time, I write here about things I’ve learned (and mistakes I’ve made) in those areas. I’ve asked you to post questions in the past. But I’ve realized that I don’t often directly ask you what would be most helpful.

Earlier this year, I asked folks to book short calls with me, and I found those to be really helpful. Now I’d like to go a little broader.

So I’m running a short survey to learn more about what people in this community are working on: the challenges you’re facing, and the kinds of support or resources you wish existed. It’s open to anyone who reads my posts.

Take the short survey. It’s five questions and takes about two minutes.

I’ll share some of the broader themes that emerge in a future post. My hope is to better understand where I can be most useful, whether that’s through essays, templates, workshops, or conversations with folks tackling similar challenges.

There’s a box at the end if you’d like to leave your email to chat directly. Otherwise, everything is anonymous.

If you take a few minutes to fill this out, I’ll do my best to make something genuinely useful from what you share.

Thanks, as always, for reading. If you have two minutes, I’d really value your input.