Soon I’ll be interviewing a few remaining stakeholders in the Bloomfield Information Project. I hope to interview at least one member of the BIP team, at least one representative reader of the Daily Bulletin, and one person who has provided (individually or as a part of an organization) financial support to the project.
These are the general questions I’m planning to use in those conversations; they are subject to further refinement based on feedback from my capstone advisory committee and others.
- Tell me about your background, how you got involved with the Bloomfield Information Project and/or the Community Info Coop, and how you work with / experience it today?
- What’s something that most excites or inspires you about the project?
- How would you describe the audience for the BIP/CIC? What do you think the BIP/CIC audience cares most about?
- In your mind, what does success look like for the BIP/CIC in the year ahead?
- What do you think are some of the biggest challenges or problems facing the project right now?
- What are some of the ways you’ve seen other news/community information organizations not be fully representative of the people they serve, and what opportunities do you see with BIP to improve upon that to be more representative and inclusive?
- If you had complete control over how the project works, what would you change or do differently?
- What’s something that has surprised you about the way the BIP/CIC project works?
- Is there anything else you’d like to share about your hopes for this project?
I will also add on additional questions as needed, mostly for the internal BIP team member conversation. These could include:
- When you were first onboarded to the project, what was the most confusing or mysterious part of how it worked?
- What part of the news harvest and production workflow feels most ripe for being improved or optimized?
- What’s happening today that most helps or inhibits you in doing your work?
