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  • August 21, 2020

    Community starts with listening: How Santa Cruz Local gained 500 paying members in one year


    “The more people feel heard, the more they value our work.”…

  • April 23, 2020

    For journalists of color, tracking by race during COVID-19 is about equity


    Small ALAANA owned and focused news organizations are filling the information gaps and using their limited resources to spread the news to their communities.

  • 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…

  • 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?…

  • August 7, 2019

    Community publications have a chance to carry the best of their pasts into the future


    Some of North Carolina’s remaining independent, for-profit news publishers share their early successes and needs as they look to the future by Melanie Sill NC Local is a weekly email…

  • 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.

  • 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.”…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • February 6, 2019

    Whose agenda drives election coverage in North Carolina?


    “Keeping “the citizens agenda” at the center of coverage doesn’t take big polls or fancy platforms: Sometimes, it’s as simple as listening to what people in your community are…

  • June 19, 2018

    Collaborate and stay with the story: lessons from North Carolina’s local news on a major water contamination story


    ‘Getting high-quality information to people is a community endeavor, not a media challenge alone’ By Melanie Sill NC Local is a weekly email newsletter aimed at connecting people across…

  • April 19, 2018

    The fight for local news can bring journalists and communities closer together


    When E.W. Scripps closed the Rocky Mountain News in February of 2009, Kimberly Humphreys wasn’t going to take it lying down. Then an…

  • April 13, 2018

    37 people struggling to get by in New Jersey


    “Humans of New Brunswick” by Wande Ogun     This post was originally published by Free Press and is republished with permission. By Mike Rispoli When it…

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