May 10, 2017
A Journalism Collaboration Lifts Up the Voices of New Brunswick’s Working Poor
Editor’s Note: A little over two years ago, Democracy Fund and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation invested in a new project that wanted to bridge the…
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May 3, 2017
Keys to successful local-national news collaborations: What can you do today to be a Partnership Sherpa?
This is the final installment in a series for the Center for Cooperative Media(generously funded by our friends at…
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April 20, 2017
How New Hampshire Public Radio Created a Podcast About Civics That People Want to Listen to
In times of confusion, go back to the basics. That was, more or less, the thinking behind Civics 101, the explainer podcast by New Hampshire Public…
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April 19, 2017
So, You Want to Start an Email Newsletter? Five Reasons You Should
Creative Commons Editor’s note: For more resources about starting an email newsletter, don’t miss our guide to newsletters. Newsletters are booming. It seems like just about every…
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March 31, 2017
Local Fix: $12 Million in Grants, Creative Agencies, and News Revenue
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…
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March 29, 2017
Join Us in Expanding Support for Local News
Democracy Fund has been spending the past year learning from and listening to local journalists, civic leaders, and foundations. A participant at a small collaborative workshop in New…
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March 29, 2017
Four Lessons from the Launch of the News Revenue Hub
Readers support real journalism when given the chance Civil Beat morning coffee. Credit: Ben Nishimoto What happens when five news organizations enlist in a program…
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March 24, 2017
Why does The Marshall Project’s ‘The Next to Die’ collaborative data initiative work so well? It’s easy.
For the last several months I’ve studied national and local news partnerships on behalf of the…
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March 15, 2017
National newsrooms say size, bureaucracy and ‘do-it-ourselves’ mentality are biggest obstacles to collaboration
We’re complicated, we have trust issues and we can just do it ourselves, anyway. Those may sound like…