April 24, 2020
Local Fix: Grant Deadlines, Photojournalists, Temporary Furlough Funds
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…
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April 15, 2020
Newsrooms facing coronavirus need support. Here’s how to navigate it.
These local newsrooms are meeting the journalistic challenge, but the economic challenge remains an existential threat.
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January 17, 2020
Local Fix: Local Misinformation, Student Press, More Podcasts
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…
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September 20, 2019
Local Fix: Local News and Joy, Student Watchdogs, Celebrating Journalists of Color
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…
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June 7, 2019
Five tips for successful collaborations between newsrooms and researchers
Illustration by Melinda Szekeres By Jessica Mahone Relationships between newsrooms and researchers can make local journalism better. But it takes work, listening and regular communication. Those were some of the…
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March 4, 2019
Journalism’s Dunbar number: Audience scales, community does not.
This guest post by Damon Kiesow, Knight Chair at The Missouri School of Journalism, was originally posted at Medium. It has been republished here with permission. News is not…
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February 15, 2019
What is a news ecosystem?
by Nancy Watzman, illustration by Joyce Rice We admit: the term “news ecosystem” may have a certain hypnotic effect, lighting up circuits in the typical human brain to file under “jargon.” However, at the Democracy Fund,…
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November 2, 2018
Four tips for local newsrooms to tap into employee matching gift programs
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash By Gabe Schneider NewsMatch, the largest grassroots fundraising campaign for nonprofit news, kicks off this week, but there are many…
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June 20, 2018
How we know journalism is good for democracy
Updated September 2022: This research review has become a critical guide for funders, policymakers, communities, and journalists who care about creating a healthier democracy.