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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Posts tagged "local news"
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October 28, 2015
How National News Organizations Can Help Strengthen Local News Networks
The Knight Foundation is Investing in National-Local Collaborations Through Five Recent Grants. In New Jersey we are developing a statewide model for a more…
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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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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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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 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 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…