Here's an idea to steal and adapt: The Times Union partnered with a nearby university to build a data-rich, low-cost weather and climate product.
Question: What problem were you trying to solve, and why was that problem strategically important to your organization?
Answer: The San Francisco Chronicle, a sibling in the Hearst family, launched a successful weather initiative in 2022, hiring meteorologists and science writers to tell data-driven stories. We wanted to embark on a similar weather effort but with a much smaller price tag — we didn’t have a budget to hire full- or part-time meteorologists or science writers.
