December 9, 2019
The Future of Local News is People
The future of local news is already being built. Here's how you can get involved.
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November 15, 2019
New report: Successes and lessons learned from Stories of Atlantic City
This post on restorative narrative in Atlantic City, N.J. comes from the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, and is being republished here with the permission of…
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November 8, 2019
New Guide: How to Get Started Funding Local News in Your Community
When we keep people at the center of our thinking — not news organizations per se, not the journalism industry — we begin to see ways we can strengthen what…
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October 23, 2019
How Southern California Public Radio uses live events to connect with communities
This case study on Southern California Public Radio is from the Wyncote Foundation’s 2019 Building Stronger Communities Through Media report. It is the ninth in a series on innovations in…
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October 9, 2019
How New Orleans Film Society supports career pipelines in the South
"If we want social change, if we want stories of social change, we need to empower makers connected to those issues."…
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September 24, 2019
How Reel South connects local voices to national reach with southern storytelling
This case study on how Reel South supports southern filmmaking is from the Wyncote Foundation’s 2019 Building Stronger Communities Through Media report. It is the seventh in a series on…
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September 10, 2019
How Resolve Philadelphia powers solutions-oriented, collaborative reporting
This case study on how Resolve Philadelphia powers solutions-oriented, collaborative reporting on complex social issues is from the Wyncote Foundation’s 2019 Building Stronger Communities Through Media report. It is the…
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August 27, 2019
How Capital Public Radio puts the public at the center of storytelling
What are public radio newsrooms doing to reach beyond their traditional audiences and learn from the communities they cover?…
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August 13, 2019
How NJ Spotlight is filling gaps in New Jersey state policy news
This case study on how NJ Spotlight is filling gaps in New Jersey state policy news is from the Wyncote Foundation’s 2019 Building Stronger Communities Through Media report. It is…