• Journos can get great access to exclusive data, experts, and impacted communities
• Orgs need to be flexible about timing their research for press cycles
• *Trusting working relationships* between journos and civic sector organizations are key to great collaborative data stories
• Journos can get great access to exclusive data, experts, and impacted communities
• Orgs need to be flexible about timing their research for press cycles
• *Trusting working relationships* between journos and civic sector organizations are key to great collaborative data stories