Tuesday Night, Billy Penn Covered the Election in a Pop-Up Newsroom

By: Kristen Hare | Poynter

On Tuesday night, about 20 journalists in Philadelphia got together over beer and pizza to watch and report election results. They weren’t waiting together at election night parties or forced together outside the polls. It was a pop-up newsroom.

Fittingly, the get-together took place at an incubator at the University City Science Center, which donated the space and some beer (from Philly’s Victory Brewing Company, some Yuengling and a few Miller Lights.) Billy Penn, which organized the pop-up, paid for the pizza, about $200, said Chris Krewson, Billy Penn’s editor, in a phone interview.