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  • January 19, 2022

    Meet the Ecosystem Builders: A unique group of leaders transforming local news


    They are the “green shoots” of news ecosystems, willing to experiment in new projects or help introduce collaboration and new ways of working to legacy organizations.

  • June 7, 2021

    How to listen during a pandemic and other lessons from recent local news ecosystem research


    Central to all of these lessons is the understanding that research itself can be an investment in a community.

  • October 1, 2020

    Building with community: How The Triibe grew into its ecosystem


    "To us it's more than a journalism site or news site. It's a community."…

  • July 1, 2020

    Why Diana Alba-Soular is working on the wellbeing of New Mexico journalism


    "Journalists are glad there is somebody on their side when there are so many people trying to tear down journalists or can’t understand the situations that they’re going through."…

  • June 10, 2020

    Black lives matter. Black journalists matter


    "When what is good to cover is good for a certain demographic, then we have a lot of chaos in the information ecosystem."…

  • May 18, 2020

    5 lessons about sharing power in journalism collaborations


    "Community really is rooted in showing up over and over and over again."…

  • May 13, 2020

    Introducing the North Carolina Local News Workshop


    Funding is critical to supporting quality, accessible local news and information, but is not sufficient to fully connect a resilient network.

  • April 27, 2020

    Collaborations, conversations, and COVID-19: How 5 local news ecosystems are responding resiliently


    If we are to successfully help local journalism not only survive, but transform in a way that will create systems level impact and longer term transformation, we must understand how…

  • December 10, 2019

    Community Organizing in the North Carolina Local News Ecosystem


    This post on the North Carolina local news ecosystem is part of a series on the future of local news profiling efforts by ecosystem builders across the country. You’ll learn…

  • December 10, 2019

    Collaboration is Key in New Mexico Local News Ecosystem


    New Mexico's news ecosystem has a unique and valuable resource: a culture of collaboration.

  • December 10, 2019

    A Diversity of Outlets Play Big Role in Chicago’s Local News Ecosystem


    Journalists need to change the way we think about news...We didn’t give billboards, community newsletters, church newsletters any credit. That needs to change."…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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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