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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Posts tagged "community engagement"
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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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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…
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September 10, 2017
Bike messengers provide a two-way info service in Queens
Women from Mujeres en Movimiento delivering information as part of CycleNews. Photo courtesy NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs This piece was originally published …
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August 7, 2017
Taking the internet off the internet to reach offline audiences
263Chat videos cover urban and rural Zimbabwe. This screenshot is from one about bringing technology to agricultural villages By Madeleine Bair If news innovation is understood through the…
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May 18, 2017
Turning Readers Into Funders
By Kate Lesniak Could a digital platform designed to deepen the relationship between readers…
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May 18, 2017
Borrow Ideas From These 28 Community Engagement Case Studies
Updated May 31, 2017 When it comes to newsroom practices, the term “engagement” contains multitudes. Over the years, it’s been used to refer to everything from readers lingering…