[SHIPPING] Outreach — journalists, researchers, advocacy orgs #20
Description
Distribution strategy for the dashboard launch.
Primary targets
- ACLU-WI — contact about data collaboration + share dashboard link
- Wisconsin Watch (investigative journalism nonprofit)
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel data/investigations desk
- UW-Madison law or immigration clinic researchers
- Voces de la Frontera (immigrant rights org, WI)
- Local journalists covering immigration or sheriff races in key counties (Brown, Kenosha, Waukesha, Racine)
Social / community
- Post to Mastodon (data journalism, journalism, immigration hashtags)
- Post to relevant subreddits: r/wisconsin, r/dataisbeautiful, r/ImmigrationNews
- Submit to Data Is Plural newsletter (https://www.data-is-plural.com/survey/)
- Submit to Source (OpenNews): https://source.opennews.org/articles/
Framing for outreach
"We built a free, county-level dashboard showing which Wisconsin sheriffs cooperate with ICE — including 287(g) agreements, detainer counts, and how much federal money they received. Data is public record and updated automatically."