April 28, 2017
Local Fix: Open Journalism, Collaboration, and the Poetry of Local
Welcome to the Local Fix. Each week we look at key debates in journalism sustainability and community engagement through the lens of local news. But first, we always begin with one good idea…
One Good Idea: Hey Neighbor
If you’re looking for audience, go where they are, don’t always expect them to come to you. One way KQED has found the community they want to reach is through an experiment with Nextdoor . The public radio station has partnered with the social network to post stories, and to crowdsource information about future stories. Nextdoor has had its share of problems, and you should understand those debates before engaging on the platform, but it’s an interesting experiment to keep your eyes on and to explore.
Collaboration Zone
Collaboration is key to the survival and transformation of local news, so you’ve probably seen it pop up here a time or two (or three…or four). Next week, Josh and Teresa will both be at the Collaborative Journalism Summit, so we have been looking through some great reads on the topic. Here are a few, and keep an eye open for more from the summit in the future. (And say hi to us if you’re there!)
- All Together Now: Best Practices in Journalism Collaboration – Josh Stearns
- Facet: Helping newsrooms create effective, meaningful collaborations – Heather Bryant
- Journalists around the world are working together more than ever. Here are 56 examples. – Melody Kramer
- Three Ways Local and National Collaborations Partner Now – Tim Griggs
Poetry Helps us Confront the News
For poetry month
Explore the connections of
Poetry and news
Explore the connections of
Poetry and news
- How to get your news from poems – Josh Stearns
- In Verse – a multimedia reporting project combining poetry, photography and sound – Transom
- Off/Page Project poets draw from CIR’s public housing investigation – CIR
- The New Yorker’s new bot will tweet 92 years worth of poetry at you – Poynter
- D.C. in poetry – Anacostia Unmapped
- When ZIP codes become poems – WLRN
- B is for Bankruptcy – WDET
Working in the Open
What would your work look like if the public joined you on the reporting process? David Fahrtenhold did it with tweets, Hearken newsrooms do it with questions, and others do it with events, online tools, and more. Bring your reader with you, in fact, let them lead the way, and see what happens.
- The Case For Open Journalism Now (PDF) – Melanie Sill
- With Open Notebook, Hearken wants to help news orgs do more of their reporting in public – NiemanLab
- “My name is __ and I’m committed to lifting up the voices of __.” – News Voices
- The shift from advertising to subscription models is a revolutionary moment for our craft. – David Skok
- How the Internet is giving the quest narrative new relevance for journalism – Matt Thompson
- The Gospel of Public Journalism – AJR
Have a good weekend,
Josh and Teresa
@jcstearns, @gteresaThe Local Fix is a project of the Democracy Fund’s Public Square Program, which invests in innovations and institutions that are reinventing local media and expanding the public square. Disclosure: Some projects mentioned in this newsletter may be funded by Democracy Fund, you can find a full list of the organizations we support on our website.
Josh and Teresa
@jcstearns, @gteresaThe Local Fix is a project of the Democracy Fund’s Public Square Program, which invests in innovations and institutions that are reinventing local media and expanding the public square. Disclosure: Some projects mentioned in this newsletter may be funded by Democracy Fund, you can find a full list of the organizations we support on our website.
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