Special Edition

Find the gaps between your coverage and your community's information needs.

Practical exercises inspired by Tom Rosenstiel's The Next Journalism aimed to help news leaders further level up their journalism and give their communities the information they need to thrive.

Examine how you use evidence to influence decisions.

Navigating change is more than picking the right strategy or tool. It requires questioning assumptions, developing new skills and continuously teaching and learning.

Civic trust is bigger than whether people trust a news organization. It includes the role local media can play in helping people understand their communities, participate in civic life and navigate differences with one another.

Reach out to that person and share how they helped you reconsider a challenge you were facing, led you to a new idea or shaped your career. Ask them what challenges or ideas they’re wrestling with now.

We’ll dig into three areas that are important to the future of local journalism: civic trust, people and culture and organizational resilience.

Impact-minded organizations build habits that help them notice what their communities are responding to, interpret what those signals might mean and adapt their journalism while the work is still unfolding.

Everyone in the newsroom needs to not only recognize impact signals but frame their work through an impact lens. One way to do this is by making this discussion part of the editorial process before an article is written or a project is published.

Identifying deeper impact signals your newsroom wants to track and engaging colleagues from across your organization on what impact they want their work to have.