Ilana E. Strauss
Trying to figure out how humans work
- Role
- Founder at News Detective
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ilana E. Strauss
Journalist. Produced podcasts and written articles for The Atlantic, The Economist…
Experience
Founder
Oct 2020 — Present
Founded News Detective, a project that uses crowdsourcing to fight misinformation on social media and spread media literacy- Partnered with Bluesky, a 23-million-user social media platform started by a Twitter cofounder- Work with professors and students at MIT, University of Oregon, University of California, University of Illinois, and Howard University- Incubated at the MIT DesignX accelerator, the MIT Sandbox Accelerator, and Hacks/Hackers. Semifinalist for the MIT Solve competition- Won grants from The International Fact-Checking Network, Google, YouTube, MIT Sandbox, MIT DesignX, Bluesky, and Hacks/Hackers
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Science, Media
2009 — 2011
Yale University
English, English, Media, Art
2011 — 2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of City Planning
Skills
- Cartoons
- Content Management
- Writing
- Marketing
- Image Editing
- Microsoft Office
- Drawing
- Final Cut Pro
- Video
- Photo Editing
- Newspapers
- Computer Animation
- Illustrator
- Cartooning
- Creative Writing
- 3d Animation
- Css
- Blogging
- Html + Css
- New Media
- Spanish-Speaking
- Photoshop
- Html
- Painting
- Social Media
- Web Design
- Premiere
- Blender
- Indesign
- Magazines
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