
Tamara Power-Drutis
2016-2017 Reynolds Fellow
Institutional fellow
Reynolds Journalism Institute
Chief of Staff
Amplifier
Former Executive Director
Crosscut Public Media
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Website: http://www.crosscut.com
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Member ID: 1435
Group Title: Content providers
Join Date: May 7, 2016
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Last Visit: December 31, 1969
Last Activity: December 31, 1969
Total Entries: 7
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About Tamara Power-Drutis
Tamara Power-Drutis is the chief of staff at Amplifier, a nonpartisan art machine for social change that aims to flip artists into activists and observers into participants. Power-Drutis is the former executive director of the Northwest independent news site Crosscut Public Media, which has a goal of informing a public capable of solving the current challenges. While at Crosscut, she served as the project leader for an RJI Fellowship project, which involved researching innovative methods for engaging news audiences. She continues to serve as a co-leader of the project.
She is a member of the 2017 Young American Leaders Program cohort, and in 2016-2017 was an inaugural Henry M. Jackson Foundation Fellow. With a background in strategic partnerships and community engagement, Power-Drutis believes firmly in the value of civil dialogue and servant leadership. She is the former communications coordinator at the University of Washington’s Center on Reinventing Public Education, a research and policy center developing system wide solutions for K-12 public education.
Power-Drutis began her career as a research associate at Ross Strategic, supporting partnerships between the Environmental Protection Agency, State, and Tribal groups around environmental information management systems. She is active in community organizing, and has served on the boards of the World Affairs Council, the Young Professionals International Network, and the Lesotho Connection.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Pacific Lutheran University, where she served as the vice president of the Associated Student Body and was a Sustainability Fellow. Born in Tacoma, raised in Cheney, and now a resident of Rainier Beach in Seattle, Tamara is a product of Washington.
Tamara Power-Drutis is the former executive director at Crosscut Public Media and co-project leader of Crosscut’s 2016-2017 institutional fellowship at RJI.
Stories about Tamara Power-Drutis
Our cornerstone: A salute to RJI fellows
It’s easier than ever to create a data-driven newsletter
October 31, 2018RJI in the news
IJNet: Free tool helps newsrooms curate, manage effective newsletters
June 29, 2017RJI in the news
Tool for journalists: Opt In, for newsletter optimisation
June 9, 2017RJI in the news
Nieman Lab: This new tool will help your newsroom create better email newsletters
June 5, 2017Why send newsletters?
Newsletter optimizer Opt In allows newsrooms to improve newsletters or create one from scratch
June 5, 2017Why send newsletters?
Top 5 best newsletter pop-ups
May 2, 2017Why send newsletters?
Relaunching a newsletter: Failures, successes and what we learned
April 13, 2017RJI in the news
Editor & Publisher: Crosscut News is developing a free email newsletter tool for news organizations
April 11, 2017Why send newsletters?
Are you leaving money on the table?
February 22, 2017Why send newsletters?
What are your newsletter analytics trying to tell you? Are you listening?
February 3, 2017Why send newsletters?
Test, test, test! Designing a data-driven newsletter
January 24, 2017Why send newsletters?
The Ann Friedman Weekly: How one freelance journalist created a massively successful newsletter
January 17, 2017Why send newsletters?
Why send a newsletter at all?
January 10, 2017How do we engage news consumers in the digital world?
June 30, 2016Seattles Best
Seattle’s Best: Mary Bruno
March 26, 2015
Converting news readers into engaged email subscribers
A team from Crosscut News will conduct a research project on the most efficient and effective way to convert nonprofit-news readers into engaged email subscribers. Former Crosscut Public Media Executive Director Tamara Power-Drutis is a project leader, along with Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz, editorial coordinator of Crosscut.
Crosscut Public Media fellowship project 2016–2017
October 6, 2016
Why send newsletters?
Are you leaving money on the table?
February 22, 2017Why send newsletters?
What are your newsletter analytics trying to tell you? Are you listening?
February 3, 2017Why send newsletters?
Test, test, test! Designing a data-driven newsletter
January 24, 2017Why send newsletters?
The Ann Friedman Weekly: How one freelance journalist created a massively successful newsletter
January 17, 2017Why send newsletters?
Why send a newsletter at all?
January 10, 2017How do we engage news consumers in the digital world?
June 30, 2016