When we looked at the latest research on how Americans view news about elections, we noted several findings local media especially may want to use to start conversations about how they gain trust this year with their community.
The urgency to establish more Spanish-language newsrooms or those dedicated to serving Hispanic communities cannot be overstated. We do not only need more hyper local journalism projects like ours, but we need more transparency and clarity with the existing media organizations.
In 2023, 13 news organizations were part of a cohort assembled by the American Press Institute to track the diversity of people quoted in their […]
As news organizations work to grow and nurture relationships in their communities, many are focusing on ways to not only track their outreach but also build in the accountability necessary to improve.
Call for applications is now closed. Americans use news and information to make decisions and thrive. But local news has other roles that complement gathering […]
Community listening is a crucial tenet of improving community engagement, along with asset mapping and collaborating with other local news outlets — all part of the API Inclusion Index cohort’s efforts toward better engaging communities of color.
If we want to advance care in our community storytelling work – which I see as a key role of journalism – we also need to practice self-care.
Anyone can work toward creating emotional safety anywhere they have agency over the room or in the space. This is a quick look at ways to operationalize emotional safety, whether in-person, virtual, one-time or ongoing.
Care involves the ability to hear, understand and recognize others’ needs and feelings. Centering care, though, goes one step further by taking on the work […]
How can we center care when examining who gets to select and tell stories, how and where they are told, how stories are heard and responded to?
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