A live conference on San Francisco’s housing crisis has generated so many ideas for solutions from the community that a key organizer, the San Francisco Public Press, has decided to make this topic a focus coverage area for the foreseeable future. The San Francisco Public Press is a small non-profit public interest news agency largely … Continue reading Small news org engages community in live event to ‘hack’ San Francisco’s housing crisis
Category: Engagement Examples
Community journalism program addressing diversity disconnect
By Jennifer Neutel Brenda Payton says she feels encouraged and excited by what she’s seeing in her first weeks as coordinator of Oakland Voices, a nine-month community journalism program engaging 12 East Oakland citizens. The Voices correspondents learn writing, photography and video skills and tell the stories of their communities. Their work is published on … Continue reading Community journalism program addressing diversity disconnect
Video project to promote fair housing in Cedar Rapids inspires We Create Here team to get involved
Posted by Jennifer Neutel Commission and media company collaborating on community project A video contest hosted by the Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission to promote fair housing now has a team from The Gazette Company involved. Members of the media company’s We Create Here effort are saying they’re honored to have been invited to help … Continue reading Video project to promote fair housing in Cedar Rapids inspires We Create Here team to get involved
United leaders key for news organizations’ community engagement efforts
By Jennifer Neutel Editor, publisher and editorial page editor need to be on same page: James Lawrence The Democrat and Chronicle’s editorial page editor James Lawrence says the entire Unite Rochester effort is a “huge opportunity” for the newspaper to create change.Starting his journalism career in the 1970s, Lawrence says similar to a lot of … Continue reading United leaders key for news organizations’ community engagement efforts
Canadian radio journalist launches program to feature local immigrants
By Jennifer Neutel Canadian radio journalist Leah Shaw is launching a new program that will feature the individual stories of immigrants living in her hometown of Salmon Arm, British Columbia. The goal is to provide a more multifaceted perspective of the community of 17,000 and help people better understand the “richness of individuals” who live … Continue reading Canadian radio journalist launches program to feature local immigrants
Newspaper series brings sensitivities to light
Handling sensitive content, navigating new relationships among challenges Unite Rochester ran a couple of stories in June around a flashpoint issue: people part of a Bhutanese and Nepalese refugee community feeling targeted and preyed on by African-Americans expressed mounting anger that was about to hit a breaking point. The refugees had been reluctant to go … Continue reading Newspaper series brings sensitivities to light
Editorial ‘listening tours’ engage community in creating change
By Jennifer Neutel ‘I don’t know if we can ever declare victory, but the train has left the station’ When the editorial board at the Democrat and Chronicle embarked on hosting “listening tours” — encouraging readers to attend various meetings and discuss community issues related to race and poverty — initially only a handful of … Continue reading Editorial ‘listening tours’ engage community in creating change
Community journalism program helps fulfill childhood wish
By Jennifer Neutel Correspondent experience permits Debora Gordon to pursue interests The opportunity to be an Oakland Voices correspondent allowed Debora Gordon to fulfill part of her childhood wish. “If I had to do it over again I would have more vigorously pursued a career in writing,” Gordon says. “(Oakland Voices) did make me feel … Continue reading Community journalism program helps fulfill childhood wish
New NPR Chief, Jarl Mohn, Vows to Foster Diversity
What can NPR do to change the fact that 77 percent of its staff are white, and its audience even more so? Jarl Mohn will begin his post as chief executive this week after announcing one of National Public Radio’s most pressing priorities is to increase its reach into communities of color. Mohn was chosen … Continue reading New NPR Chief, Jarl Mohn, Vows to Foster Diversity
Editor enjoys stepping out of comfort zone, into community conversations
By Jennifer Neutel This time, race conversations ‘headed somewhere’ Early in the Unite Rochester effort Dick Moss discovered how sensitive the topic of race can be. Moss wrote a blog for the site sharing anecdotes from people of color about incidents they experienced as discrimination. He thought he was asking for understanding among people, yet the … Continue reading Editor enjoys stepping out of comfort zone, into community conversations