Mandy Jenkins

Mandy Jenkins is Interactives Editor with Digital First Media's Project Thunderdome, where she oversees the national video and data journalism teams and works with local newspapers on special projects and social media strategy. 

Mandy was previously Social News Editor for politics at The Huffington Post, and coordinated the company's citizen journalism program, OfftheBus. She was formerly the social media editor for Washington, D.C. local news startup TBD and served in several roles involving social media and online news for the Cincinnati Enquirer and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She is a board member of the Online News Association and a journalism instructor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Recent Posts by Mandy Jenkins

  • Social Media Reporting Tools

    At the APME NYC NewsTrain workshop, Mandy Jenkins of Project Thunderdome shared tips and tools on using social media to find reporting sources, as well as how to fact-check and curate social media to augment coverage.

  • Social Media Reporting Tools

    At the APME NYC NewsTrain workshop June 6-7, 2013, Mandy Jenkins, then of Project Thunderdome, shared tips and tools on using social media to find reporting sources, as well as how to fact-check and curate social media to augment coverage.

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