We need a PIT Crew for news

🫧 Open on Bubbles Link: Mamdani invests in tech capacity to “solve real problems”, by Pamela Herd in Can We Still Govern? There’s a lot that newsrooms can learn from Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral administration in New York City. His latest announcement is the Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crew , a set of dynamic, cross-disciplinary digital teams that will solve problems across the city using a rapid, human-centered approach. As Pamela Herd notes here , this is a shift from contracting out to building internal