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    Best practices for doing community-driven storytelling

    What journalists learn from listening to voices Each Finding America team immersed themselves deeply in their communities, first as outsiders and, over time, building meaningful [...]

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    10 key steps to making community-driven stories

    Telling stories with and for people, instead of merely treating people as “sources,” is no easy task. The Finding America lead producers faced myriad obstacles [...]

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    At a glance: The Finding America projects, producers & lead collaborators

    Visit Finding America’s metasite — findingamerica.airmedia.org — for additional context and ongoing updates from the projects below.  Anacostia Unmapped → Katie Davis, Brendan Sweeney, WAMU [...]

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    A reflection on the power of creative storytelling to unite communities

    By Mallary Tenore In times of disparity and political division, storytelling can be beautifully unifying. My work on this report began in July 2016 with [...]

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    Break Form: Making stories with and for the people

    Introduction and Actions: Localore: Finding America Editor’s Note: This report captures the impact and lessons from Localore: Finding America — an independent public media initiative [...]

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    4 questions nonprofit newsrooms and funders have about their evolving relationships

    As journalism’s traditional business models continue to shift, more news organizations are turning to nonprofit and foundation support as a way to support their journalism. [...]

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    Why we click on news stories

    For news organizations, clicks are tracked closely. They generate advertising revenue and help newsrooms to better understand audience interests. But what motivates news users to [...]

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    WAN-IFRA releases first findings from API-supported inquiry on news literacy

    This week is the annual “News in Education Week,” a time when NIE programs at newspaper media across the U.S. typically draw additional attention to [...]

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    Journalism driven by stakeholders: 9 good questions with Stakeholder Media Project’s Mark Lee Hunter

    More media organizations are being created and controlled by the people who are invested in the issues their organizations are covering, according to Mark Lee [...]

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    Guidance on philanthropic funding of media and news

    As nonprofit funding of news grows, what are the best practices for ensuring editorial independence? The following two sets of broad guidelines of best practices, [...]

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