November 25, 2016
Giving Thanks for Good Journalism
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October 12, 2016
Diverse, Inclusive, and Informed: What It Will Take To Build the Future of Journalism
Photo by John Dahl, distributed via Creative Commons By Sabrina Hersi Issa Holding a mirror to society, speaking truth to…
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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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December 2, 2015
From #GivingTuesday to #GivingNewsDay
By Molly de Aguiar and Josh Stearns Today is Giving Tuesday, which has become a juggernaut in philanthropy raising $46 million for thousands of…
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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,…
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August 6, 2015
New Study Highlights Unequal Access to Local News and Information in New Jersey
By Molly de Aguiar and Josh Stearns If you are a resident of Morristown, New Jersey you get 23 times more news coverage per capita than the state’s largest city,…
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May 12, 2015
Three Must Read Newsletters for News Nerds
Our newsletter has been growing quickly in recent weeks, thanks to all of you who have been helping spread the word. There are a lot of…
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April 29, 2015
Mapping the Intersection of Journalism and Civic Technology
When we put community at the center of our work we discover new connections between journalism and civic technology. On April 4 Laurenellen McCann at Smart Chicago hosted…
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April 22, 2015
We Need to Talk About Burnout in Local Newsrooms
In the wake of this week’s Pulitzer Prize announcements we learned that two of the journalists from the winning reporting teams have left journalism. One left…
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January 20, 2015
Building Journalism With Community, Not For It
At the end of last year Kristin Hare of the Poynter Institute was collecting tech resolutions for 2015 and asked for mine. Here is what I wrote:…
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December 20, 2014
Local Fix: Creating amazing things online without starving, learning everyday and managing for change
Welcome to the Local Fix, you can subscribe here. Each week we look at key debates in journalism sustainability and community engagement through the lens of local news, starting…