November 14, 2016
How to Listen Better
More than 30 tools, guides and examples to help journalists — and anyone else — be better listeners. In my weekly newsletter, The Local…
Author Archives: Josh Stearns
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March 8, 2016
How Four of the Smallest Newsrooms in America Are Using Video
Photo by Tim Caynes, used via creative commons In January media consultant Mario Garcia wrote that 2016 would be “the…
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December 21, 2015
Four Kinds of Journalism That Start with the Letter S
This post originally appeared in the Local Fix, a weekly newsletter on creative experiments in journalism sustainability and community engagement. 1) Structured Journalism…
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December 21, 2015
Designing Journalism for Discovery and Engagement
Old cover on a Nancy Drew book, photo by Carla26 on Flickr Current’s “The Pub,” which…
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October 28, 2015
How National News Organizations Can Help Strengthen Local News Networks
The Knight Foundation is Investing in National-Local Collaborations Through Five Recent Grants. In New Jersey we are developing a statewide model for a more…
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October 8, 2015
In Curiosity We Trust
A New Journalism Collaboration is Putting People’s Questions First By Molly de Aguiar and Josh Stearns Good journalism often starts with questions. But where…
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October 6, 2015
How To Attend a Journalism Conference Without Ever Leaving Your House
21 Tools and Lessons for Local News from the Online News Association and Local Independent Online News Publishers Over the last week two very different conferences brought…
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September 21, 2015
How to Navigate the Future of News
By Josh Stearns and Molly de Aguiar Our work on journalism and sustainability at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation is rooted in the idea that there is no…
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September 2, 2015
Beyond the Numbers: Media Diversity and Local News
Creating more diverse journalism can’t just be about slotting people of color into the newsrooms we have, it has to be about transforming our institutions, our culture,…