Maggie Sivit

@msivit.bsky.social

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✏️ Audience director at @injusticewatch.org ⌛️ Previously digital and engagement producer at WBEZ 🇨🇺 NAHJ member 📬 maggiesivit@injusticewatch.org

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A screenshot of a POLITICO article about US-Cuba relations
A screenshot of an Injustice Watch newsletter featuring a section about the Illinois Department of Corrections' ban on print mail to state prisons
Screenshots of the old Injustice Watch newsletter design and current design side by side
A screenshot of an email from the Injustice Watch new subscriber welcome series, featuring an illustrated day in the life of a senior reporter
A spread from the Spring 2026 issue of Humboldt Park Magazine, featuring the first page of a profile of Chicago Poet Laureate Mayda Del Valle
Screenshot reads: “Here's the type of content losing to Al: explainers, how-tos, evergreens, aggregated news, resource lists, hours of operation for government offices, recipes. The winning content? Hyperlocal news, breaking news (as it happens), scoops, notable first-person narratives, and investigative journalism. Al can't or won't summarize this information because it's too recent or too unique. And there's good reason to believe the bots won't figure out how to do it - maybe ever, but at least not in 2026.”
A photo of me reading a book at an event at Tala Gallery in West Town
A screenshot from an article reads: “Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote the dissent, which was joined by the court's two other liberals. She called the order a ‘pointless but painful perversion of our equitable discretion.' ‘This Court has once again paved the way for the immediate infliction of injury without adequate (or, really, any) justification,’ she wrote.”
A screenshot from Injustice Watch's newsletter reads, "Recently, I spoke with several people who are pushing IDOC to back down from the policy, which they say eliminates one of the few tactile connections incarcerated people have with the outside world. "A handwritten letter. A birthday card from your kids. A report card - things that keep you in touch and in tune while you re away. Those are things that just can't be replaced with the tablets," said James Swansey, associate policy director at Restore Justice. He remembers the handwritten letters he received from his grandmother while he was incarcerated, and said holding the paper she had touched felt like a lifeline. "Those letters were written in pencil, right? And I actually still have those letters to this day," he said." It was just an important part of my incarceration, and that's something that they re trying to take away from individuals."
A screenshot of an newsletter from Chicago 26th Ward Ald. Jessie Fuentes
A photo from the exhibit “The Trail They Blazed”
A photo from the exhibit “The Trail They Blazed”
A screenshot from an Injustice Watch article by Maya Dukmasova about the election of the chief judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County
A screenshot of an excerpt from the Injustice Watch weekly newsletter. The section is titled "Prison libraries and access to the courts."
A photo of page 180 of The Cultural Politics of Emotions by Sara Ahmed
A photo of two cats watching a bird outside the window, perched on a bird feeder
A video of Walter King Jr. (the Spellbinder) performing on a stage, making a dove appear out of nowhere
An Otter excerpt from an interview with Walter King Jr, an illusionist known as the Spellbinder, in which he describes performing at clubs.
A screenshot from a WBEZ Chicago article about the history of Chicago’s magic scene, titled “Pick a card, any card”
A screenshot of an Adobe Premiere sequence editor and QuickTime Player open with the same video clip. The Premiere sequence looks more saturated than the QuickTime version.
A photo of an article by Injustice Watch and the Investigative Project in the Sunday issue of the Chicago Sun-Times
A photo of a “letter-by-letter guide” to barbecuing in a newspaper insert
A photo of a Chicago Sun-Times insert titled “Heat Index” with a stock image of a person swimming
A screenshot from Marco Buscaglia's website that reads: Marco Buscaglia began writing stories in 1976 when he was a second-grade student at St. Constance School in Chicago, penning – pencilling, actually – "The Bicentennial Nightmare," a 141-word piece of historical fiction that was praised for its sparse narration, realistic dialogue and flawless use of the lowercase "b." Since 1991, Marco has been paid small and large but mostly small sums of money to write about people, jobs, ideas, issues, products and services. He also writes about himself, usually for free and not in the third person.
A photo of El Chapo the turtle in 2023
A slide from an Axios Chicago Instagram carousel with a photo of Maria Pappas in a purple outfit. The slide reads: What they're saying “I went on the internet and was fascinated by Elon Musk's [model] mother and I'm like, 'Really? I look better than her,'' Pappas tells Axios. So l got all dressed up, took a copy of my calendar and a bunch of photos from Victor Skrebneski's studio where I'm lying on a couch in phony fur jackets to Lily's Talent Agency and I signed up."
A hand holding a piece of paper, with “steps of a detention hearing” at the top and several sections of text below
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A flyer announcing an event titled Humboldt Park on the patio: April 30, 2025 7pm | UTC: 2620 W Division St. A panel discussion with industry leaders in photography.
A photo of a two-flat with a large wood and mesh outdoor cat patio on the porch roof
A screenshot from an article reads: FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez criticized the move as an effort to "weaponize the power of the FCC," and said in a statement that the agency has "no business intimidating and silencing broadcast partners.”
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A photo of a hand holding the book “Crook County” by Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
A flyer for Concerts for Cuba 2025 with information about the Feb. 16 concert in Chicago.
A screenshot of an interview that reads: “What role can the Trump administration play in that change? Oh, I think we can be very creative. Very creative. What does that mean? I think we can be very creative, and I'll leave it at that. Any hints? I think it's rife with opportunities and creativity.”
A flyer for Concerts for Cuba: A National Benefit to Raise Urgent Humanitarian Aid
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A screenshot from an article reads: “A co-chair of its bargaining unit, Sun-Times reporter Nader Issa, said in a statement: "Our union is frustrated that our organization's management did not secure more revenue in the past three years to avoid staffing cuts and secure our sustainability. While we understand this move is meant to cut long-term costs, it's harder to swallow knowing the exorbitant executive salaries and bonuses we've seen CPM shell out in the past few years. We hope everyone at the organization will share in the pain on our path to sustainability.”
A photo of a grey cat on a cat tree
A screenshot of the Injustice Watch newsletter, featuring three Polaroid-style images of staff members playing shuffleboard at the Injustice Watch holiday party.
A screenshot of a Canva flyer design with purple geometric shapes and futuristic fonts.
A photo of a mini espresso maker on a stove top. The stove grate has a large open space and the glass cup on the moka pot has a broken handle.
View of a street and mountains.
A tortoiseshell cat on a desk-mounted cat bed.
Screenshot reads: "Block Club is now focused on understanding its audience beyond its core base. By the end of 2024, it aims to map out geographic and demographic gaps across Chicago and develop strategies to reach those underserved areas. “We feel pretty confident that if you live in Chicago, we have something of value to offer you,” Schiffman Tufano said. The goal is to identify blind spots in coverage and engagement, such as areas where people haven’t encountered Block Club's content or felt its relevance."
Screenshot reads: "Two-thirds of outlets reported gains in email subscribers from 2021 to 2023 (we’ll call them “email gainers”), with only 1 in 10 reporting declines (“email decliners”). The remaining outlets stayed flat. Of course, many email subscribers could be inactive or the list owner might have recently cleaned their list to improve deliverability, so we shouldn’t take this as a platform-growth victory. But writ large, we see email success span across the industry more so than other platforms."
Screenshot reads: "INN Index data doesn’t explain this, but INN’s work in the field suggests that explanatory and investigative outlets often produce more "evergreen" content — articles that might remain more relevant over time because they provide deep analysis or context on broader issues. Larger, national and global outlets often have more resources to invest in search engine optimization (SEO) and improved website speed. And older websites likely have more search authority, visibility, and established trust via external linking and other factors."
Me taking a Google Meet selfie
A card from the Grief Deck titled “Connecting through rituals.”
A screenshot from Systems Thinking for Journalists page called "Identifying key stakeholders and information needs." A blue box titled "Step 1: Brainstorm your stakeholders" includes steps for identifying stakeholders as a team.
A sidebar in an article titled "How to get information about your landlord," which includes a bullet-point list of how to use a new process in Cook County for finding information about building code violations as a tenant facing eviction.
Screenshot of a social media profile titled 'US Government Contributions' with the username @us-gov-funding.bsky.social. The profile description states: 'The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations' PACs, their individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families. Include subsidiaries and affiliates.' A link to www.opensecrets.org is included below the description. The profile has 517 likes and a 'Subscribe to Labeler' button at the top. Tabs for Labels, Lists, Posts, and Replies are visible, with the Posts tab selected. The first post begins: 'We've made a list of all the Elected US Government officials we could find...'
A still of the character Jinx from the TV show Arcane.