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  • 37 People Struggling to Get by in New Jersey

    by News Integrity Initiative

    By Mike Rispoli. When it comes to telling stories of economic hardship, what can journalists learn from social workers? From oral historians? From artists? From community advocates? It turns out, a lot. At a recent workshop at Rutgers University convened by coLAB Arts and Free Press, a dozen people gathered to begin a community collaboration to lift up the stories of New Jersey residents struggling to...

    2018-04-17
    Case Studies, Inspiration
  • Recovery in post-Maria Puerto Rico

    by News Integrity Initiative

    By Jesse Hardman. More than a million people access vital information via start-up news site It’s been a harrowing six months since Hurricane Maria hit Freddie Rodriguez’s small town of Juana Díaz near Puerto Rico’s southern coast. An infection from an exposed nail in the storm’s rubble put Rodriguez in the hospital for a stretch. Eventually he returned home to find that a tree...

    2018-03-19
    Case Studies, Inspiration
  • How to launch Voting Block for your next local election

    by News Integrity Initiative

    By Reveal staff. Last year, 25 newsrooms that cover New Jersey joined the collaborative reporting initiative Voting Block. Together, we pioneered a new way to cover elections that brought together newsrooms to use the same engagement framework to inform their reporting. The goal: to spark political dialogue in New Jersey, amplify local priorities from the public for the next governor’s agenda and deepen engagement between communities...

    2018-02-07
    Case Studies, Toolkits + Guides
  • What is “Postcard Journalism”?

    by News Integrity Initiative

    By Jorge Caraballo. East Boston, Nuestra casa: A social journalism project that uses postcards to inform the Latino community in East Boston about the current housing crisis and the available resources to face it. East Boston (Eastie), Boston’s fourth largest neighborhood, is being rapidly transformed. Its location and public facilities have made it attractive for a wave of developers and investors. They’re buying and renovating...

    2018-01-10
    Case Studies, Hello!, Inspiration
  • 2018: The Year of Listening

    by News Integrity Initiative

    For his Nieman Lab prediction last year, Andrew Haeg, founder and CEO of GroundSource, predicted that 2017 would be “The Year of Listening.” He wrote: “Not only have the digital dimes not added up, but our addiction to scale and its primary fuel, social media, have created the illusion of expanding reach while actually eroding what made us indispensable in the first place: our...

    2018-01-06
    Hello!

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37 People Struggling to Get by in New Jersey

Published by News Integrity Initiative

By Mike Rispoli. When it comes to telling stories of economic hardship, what can journalists learn from social workers? From oral historians? From artists? From community advocates? It turns...

2018-04-17
Case Studies, Inspiration

Recovery in post-Maria Puerto Rico

Published by News Integrity Initiative

By Jesse Hardman. More than a million people access vital information via start-up news site It’s been a harrowing six months since Hurricane Maria hit Freddie Rodriguez’s small town...

2018-03-19
Case Studies, Inspiration

How to launch Voting Block for your next local election

Published by News Integrity Initiative

By Reveal staff. Last year, 25 newsrooms that cover New Jersey joined the collaborative reporting initiative Voting Block. Together, we pioneered a new way to cover elections that brought together newsrooms...

2018-02-07
Case Studies, Toolkits + Guides

How the Public Fueled Our Investigations in 2017

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by Terry Parris Jr. A year ago, we said we would focus more on how the public can participate in our investigative reporting. We wanted to work more collaboratively and...

2018-02-06
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Case Studies, Inspiration, Opportunities

Deploying Reach NC Voices statewide, shaping our future

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by Nation Hahn. 2017 was a difficult year for so many of the people we crossed paths with in communities across our state. We will never forget the young...

2018-01-26
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Case Studies, Inspiration

🗝 A Fund to Help Newsrooms Become Better at Listening and Engagement 👂🏽

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By Jennifer Brandel and Andrew Haeg. Let’s start with a simple premise: Journalism at its core and at its best, is a service. Is that fair? Yes? Then, it...

2018-01-23
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Case Studies, Opportunities

How are we going to invite and listen to audiences we’ve typically ignored?

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By Jenny Choi. Last night in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood a roomful of journalists and community members gathered to discuss the launch of the University of Texas in Austin’s...

2018-01-19
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Case Studies, Research

How to Listen Better

Published by News Integrity Initiative

By Josh Stearns. More than 30 tools, guides and examples to help journalists — and anyone else — be better listeners. In my weekly newsletter, The Local Fix, I compiled a list of guides,...

2018-01-17
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Case Studies, New Skills, Toolkits + Guides

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Case Studies, Inspiration

37 People Struggling to Get by in New Jersey

By Mike Rispoli. When it comes to telling stories of economic hardship, what can journalists learn from social workers? From oral historians? From artists? From community advocates? It turns...

2018-04-17

Words of Wisdom

“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them."

Eudora Welty

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