While the last two years at Stacker have been defined by virtual happy hours, the #pets Slack channel, and the 1-week period where one of our reporters was stuck as a virtual potato on Zoom, we know there's something special about getting together in-person that can help rejuvenate and unite

Local storytelling has always been in our DNA, but recent investments in our core technology have allowed us to produce something relatively novel: an automated storytelling tech stack for transforming data into full stories—featuring national, state, city, county, or even zip code-level insights for our local news partners at

Data storytelling is central to our newsroom efforts at Stacker, where we focus on using data to add to the conversation around current events and longer-term trends. Data journalism contextualizes, with each data point representing an opportunity to compare—placing that recent rainstorm within the context of 100 years of