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…
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July 30, 2019
How Minnesota-based Mizna elevates Arab and Arab-American voices through storytelling
Mizna is a nonprofit cultural organization that celebrates Arab-American culture and its multifaceted contemporary voices and representations.
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July 16, 2019
How City Bureau is making journalism more democratic in Chicago
City Bureau operates three main programs that “model a more democratic way of making media.”…
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July 9, 2019
How a hyperlocal startup is “reclaiming and informing the narrative” of North Omaha
North Omaha Information Support for Everyone (NOISE) is a hyperlocal news initiative formed by and for Omaha’s predominantly black northside neighborhood.
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July 9, 2019
Wyncote Foundation Report: How Local Media is Building Stronger Communities
This series of short profiles comes from the Wyncote Foundation’s 2019 Building Stronger Communities Through Media report, which we're republishing here over the next few months, with their permission.
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June 6, 2019
How collaboration helped a small NC newsroom investigate high eviction rates in Winston-Salem
How does a small public radio newsroom produce revelatory work with depth and impact? The answers show the challenge and also how it can be done.
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January 11, 2019
Local Fix: Work with Us, Set Goals, Build Trust, Reinvent Campaign Reporting
Gather, a community of people working at the intersection of journalism and communities, has published a huge collection of case studies. One that stood out to us was from The…
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November 8, 2018
This Wilmington, NC project is using stories to link communities and develop solutions
“I love public records, documents, data, ways to connect narratives to empiricism” This blog post is part of an ongoing series sharing stories from North Carolina Local News Lab…
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November 1, 2018
Collaboration is key for investigative reporting, Carolina Public Press founder says
“We view ourselves as a tool for North Carolinians seeking in-depth and investigative reporting.” This blog post is part of an ongoing series sharing stories from North Carolina Local…
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October 22, 2018
A new program to support student journalists – an interview with WNCU’s Lackisha Freeman
‘For me, it’s always been, “How can we do more?”‘ This blog post is part of an ongoing series sharing stories from North Carolina Local News Lab Fund grantees…