February 1, 2016
Lessons from the Local News Lab – Part One
This is part one of six essays documenting what we have learned about building new networks for local news and fostering more creative, sustainable and community-driven journalism.
The Local News Lab has been archived as of March 1, 2023. This page will remain online but will not be updated. More info.
Posts tagged "community engagement"
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June 1, 2015
Fueling The Growth of Community-Driven Journalism
A preview of the Engage Local conference on the intersection between local news and community engagement, June 16 in Newark, New Jersey. Access to ubiquitous metrics in newsrooms have…
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May 15, 2015
A New Crowdfunding Campaign Connects Community, Small Businesses and Solutions Journalism
The Lo-Down, a six-year-old community news site and monthly magazine on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, just launched a very smart crowdfunding…
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April 27, 2015
Declaration of Dependence
Communities and news organizations working together will transform local journalism. Here’s how. By Molly de Aguiar and Josh Stearns @grdodgemedia | @jcstearns The…
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April 13, 2015
16 Lessons for Creative Revenue Strategies and Community Engagement
(This post originally appeared in our weekly newsletter, The Local Fix. Subscribe here.) In early April four major reports were released that address the intersection of local journalism, revenue sustainability and…
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April 7, 2015
Newsgathering as Coalition Building: Deepening Community Engagement Before, During and After the Reporting Process
In early 2015 I wrote a post about why journalists should focus on building the future of news with communities, not just for them. As part of the Geraldine R. Dodge…
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March 23, 2015
A Sense of Belonging: Rethinking Membership Models for Journalism with Melody Kramer
In early February the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the Center for Cooperative Media and Montclair State University hosted Melody Kramer for an all…
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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…