About Metromode

Metro Detroit news and storytelling are the heart of MetroMode. We highlight the people, ideas, and innovations shaping communities across Southeast Michigan, focusing on solutions-driven journalism that moves the region forward. Metromode is focused on the dynamic communities, businesses, and residents of southeast Michigan, and is part of the Issue Media Group family.

We want to hear your thoughts and ideas for Metromode. What Metro Detroit news and stories should we be telling? Send an e-mail to contact@metromodemedia.com

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MEET THE TEAM
Genevieve Fox, Managing Editor
Genevieve Fox is an award-winning journalist from Detroit. Since graduating from Michigan State University, she has built a solid background in environmental reporting and previous experience in radio broadcasting and photography at Great Lakes Echo and WKAR. When not working, she loves spending time outdoors and reading a good book. More by Genevieve Fox. 

Contributors: Patrick Dunn, Melinda Clynes, Sarah Spohn, Amber Ogden, Estelle Slootmaker, Shandra Martinez, Blake Woodruff, Monique Bedford, Sierra Okoniewski, Layla McMurtrie, Leslie Cieplechowicz, Ellen Piligian, Sarah Williams, Erin Marie Miller, Brianne Turczynski, Greg Tasker and Mike Galbraith.

Photography: David Lewinski, Nick Hagen, Doug Coombe, Joe Powers, Steve Koss

Emeritus Editors: Kate Roff, Nina Ignaczak

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Metromode is published by Issue Media Group (IMG). Incorporated in 2005 in Detroit, Michigan. IMG operates a national network of online media outlets leveraging the power of solutions-based journalism to report on community change.  Our publications aim to connect readers to their communities’ most visionary and innovative people, projects, businesses, and organizations — fostering civic capacity, improving understanding of key issues, amplifying underserved voices, and building community attachment during a time of local media decline.

We work with like-minded stakeholders across public, private, nonprofit, and grassroots organizations whose values and missions align with ours through an underwriting model of publishing. Our journalists connect with community stakeholders through regular listening sessions designed to build trust and shape authentic community stories.

IMG’s work has been recognized and supported by leading journalism organizations nationally including INC Magazine, Knight Foundation, Columbia Journalism Review, Facebook, Lenfest Institute, Google, Solutions Journalism Network, Ground Source, and Society for Professional Journalists.

Michigan Assets 
Issue Media Group’s Michigan footprint of 18 local online community news sites is grounded in cross-sector stakeholder coalitions comprised of leadership in foundations, nonprofits, government and municipalities, education, community and economic development, health, entrepreneurship, and workforce development. Through regular community listening sessions, these leadership coalitions help guide relevant community-informed coverage, increase local audience engagement and ensure influential readership networks.   
 
All Michigan content is published through a growing network of sites that include: Detroit’s Model D, Grand Rapids Rapid Growth, Metro Detroit’s Metromode, Ann Arbor / Ypsilanti’s Concentrate, Kalamazoo / Battle Creek’s Second Wave Southwest, Flint’s Flintside, Port Huron’s The Keel, Catalyst Midland, Route Bay City, Epicenter Mount Pleasant, UPword in the Upper Peninsula, and Rural Innovation Exchange covering Michigan’s rural community. Every week, Second Wave is published to a statewide audience featuring a listing of top stories from across IMG’s network of sites. Current Michigan assets include over 120 community partners, 80 journalists, 4.6 million annual readers, 280,000 emails, and 213,000 social media followers.