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Instagram partnership

The Washington Post partnered with Instagram to bring 11 college journalists to the newsroom for training on mobile journalism and political reporting for the 2018 midterm elections. The initial concept from Instagram was to have student journalists produce videos on their own, but I knew that wouldn’t help them learn and improve their reporting. So I came up with a new proposal: after the students came to the Post newsroom for a two-day reporting workshop, Social Media Editor Teddy Amenabar and I would travel to their schools to help them finish the story. We guided the students from the University of Florida, Ohio University, University of Southern California and Texas Christian University in reporting and editing vertical videos that we published on @washingtonpost’s Instagram each week leading up to the midterm elections.