Jotting down notes on to whom we want to be accountable as a success metric, before we put anything out in the world…
Elise: Future learners (see previous post)
Kara: Making the future accessible for people who haven’t been curious about it before. How the tries is easily explained so people can understand it.
CJ: Peers — animators and people of color. Representation in front of and behind the camera matters. “It’s important to tell others that we have women of color doing this show and calling the shots.” On animators, a lot of people are interested in bringing animators and journalism together and this is my way of digging into the future, saying, “You can be an animator in news, you can animate for the radio!”
Nick: I don’t think we need to make something FOR the npr.org audience, but I think this is a place to figure out other platforms that this can get on. Apple News, Facebook — how it should work best on FB, and then we’re hoping there’s enough there there to elevating the concept to an OTT service (Netflix, Hulu). Being insider enough, but not so deep in the weeds.
A central ambition: We are trying to be representative of the future, cover the future and speak to and target the future.
Future Human 