The Outlier Collective April/May 2024 Newsletter

THE OUTLIER COLLECTIVE

April/May 2024

MEMBER NEWSLETTER

THE OUTLIER COLLECTIVE!

Happy birthday, Outlier!

Celebrate 8 years of news that serves YOU by donating today!

THE TRUTH IS COMING HOME

Tonya Mosley and Outlier Media present: Truth Be Told

Join us for a live conversation featuring journalist Tonya Mosley, exploring loss and redemption, mending broken family ties, and facing the trauma experienced by countless individuals who've lost loved ones to violence. Members of The Outlier Collective get exclusive access to pre-sale tickets! Register now!

BACK TO THE GRIND! ☕

Missing your free coffee, courtesy of Outlier Media? Weren’t aware that was a thing? Every month we are at a different coffee shop in the city. We'll be at Cafe Prince on May 16, from 9:30-10:30 a.m. Stop in to chat with our reporters and tell them what’s on your mind

Outlier’s gone global!

OUR FIRST INTERNATIONAL AWARD!

The AMIC Mitjans d'Informació I Comunicació awarded Outlier Media with the International Award for Local Media. From the jury: “Outlier won the juried prize for “being a good example of how local journalism can serve to inform, engage, and meet the needs of its citizenry.” The jury highlighted the newsroom’s diverse, woman-led team in Detroit. Jurists also noted the innovative products, excellence in web product design and use of new communication methods to motivate reader participation ”

Step your civic engagement up a notch this spring! Join us on April 17 to watch the State of the City and have some pizza, too. Register on Eventbrite! Join

WELCOME, LAURA!

Our civic reporter!

Outlier gained a new staff member since the last newsletter. Our new civic life reporter Laura Herberg has reported on a wide range of topics from pickleball, to civic heroes. We’re happy to have her!

WHEN YOUR MEDIUM IS MEDIA

Outlier invited you to come dine with us at Whatcha Wanna Eat? food hall back in October. We wanted to know what all the buzz was about and hear honest opinions about the offerings from the different stalls. Read SaMya’s article summarizing our reviews here. We

Volunteering with Art Road

Whether it was paint, crayons, markers, or glitter, the kids at Edison Elementary on the westside showed up to our event ready to make their next masterpiece. Missed out on the last one? See where we’re volunteering next!

The many faces of Outlier

AARON MONDRY

SeniorReporter

Favorite random Detroit fact?

Favorite Detroit food or beverage?

Favorite Detroit building?

Favorite Detroit historical figure?

Favorite article you’ve written for Outlier?

One thing you’d like the world to know about Detroit?

Atonepoint,AlbertKahn designed19%ofallindustrial factoriesintheU.S.

Detroit-stylepizza

McGregorMemorial ConferenceCenter

WalterReutherand BerryGordy

Squatterremovalserviceshelp Detroitlandlordsavoidcourts

It’sthefriendliestbigcityin America

Happy Happy Hour!

THANKS FOR COMING TO OUR FIRST HAPPY HOUR!

You all made our first member happy hour at Spot Lite a blast! Thank you for coming and getting your portraits done by Victoria! Lost your watercolor? Find the timelapses here! We’re gearing up for plenty more events this year. As always, stay tuned for that!

Celebrating those who came before us

A sincere thank you to all of those who attended The First 313 at Source Booksellers This event was not only extraordinarily well attended, you all contributed to an atmosophere of deep reflection. Outlier’s mission is bigger than the 16 of us who work here, and you made us feel that.

313 DAY AT SOURCE BOOKSELLERS!

Thanks for your support!

ANNUAL MEETING 2024!

Thank you to those of you who attended our Annual Meeting, either virtually or in-person. We were proud to present our first Annual Report and share a glimpse of what’s to come for Outlier. Read our Annual Report here.

Our enterprising organization

OUTLIER MEDIA HIRES ENTERPRISE EDITOR

Sarah Hulett, Outlier’s new Enterprise Editor, started on April 1, 2024 We’re thrilled to welcome her to our team Hulett will help plan, guide, and edit Outlier’s investigative reporting. Her arrival also gives our Editor-in-Chief, Sarah Alvarez, more time to work on the redesign of our TXT Outlier service. Welcome, Sarah Hulett!

Lights, camera, activism

A DOCS DOCUMENTARY: DOCUMENTING THE DOCUMENTERS

Thanks to our friends at the Song Foundation, the civic routines of our Detroit Documenters were captured on film by 7 Cylinders Studio in a short documentary titled Documenting the Documenters. Watch it below!

THANK YOU FOR HELPING US BRING SEEDLINGS TO DETROITERS!

I am always humbled by the support that our community shows us. Whether you found us through Eventbrite, or you’ve been an avid Detour reader since the dawn of time we are so grateful to have you in The Outlier Collective.

Volunteering is as meaningful to us as it is to the other nonprofit organizations we work with Building community as we did in Keep Growing Detroit’s greenhouse on April 4th is powerful in so many ways

If you did not get a chance to volunteer in April, don’t worry! We’ll be volunteering again on May 14th. Spaces for that event are very limited, so I am asking that you be sure that you can volunteer that day before signing up.

I want to extend my most sincere thank you to Keep Growing Detroit for having us, and to everyone who came to volunteer. We had a brilliant time and I can’t wait for the next one!

Shake off the winter & see what’s in bloom!

@ ONE OF DETROIT’S MOST INTERESTING PUBLIC GREENSPACES

Elmwood Cemetery and Arboretum hosts free public walking tours every month, plus birding tours, tree tours and special events throughout the season. Interested in the history of Elmwood’s landscape? What does an inverted torch mean on a gravestone? Want to learn more about Detroit trees, maritime history, the Underground Railroad? Elmwood is a one-of-a-kind starting point for curiosity and exploration in the heart of Detroit