Special Edition

If newsrooms are going to deliver on promises to become more diverse, engage better, improve coverage of communities of color or build trust within marginalized communities, they need to be held accountable for when they fail to deliver on promises. That is why we are adding accountability to the Index.

You cannot improve journalism — much less engagement, trust and inclusion — without building structures that hold news workers and outlets accountable for their actions.

A community advisory committee can help a newsroom in various ways, from informing a newsroom on specific topics to helping guide news coverage.

Asset mapping — identifying a community’s official and unofficial existing resources — can be an important groundwork for engagement.

True or untrue, fair or unfair, what is being shared is the perception you are dealing with in the community. Learning about this is why you are there.

Andrea Wenzel is an associate professor in Temple University’s Department of Journalism. In 2020, she wrote Community-Centered Journalism: Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust. [...]

Sustainability cannot simply focus on finances. If we want to do better journalism, sustainability must also focus on building community, inside and outside of the newsroom.

Today, the playbook serves as an ethics document that explains how we care for the technology in our products and the humans building and using them.

How to understand behaviors and habits for maintaining the project until its completion.

The more mindful you are about tending to the fast and slow layers of your work, you’ll sense the balance that needs to take place.