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Gather Membership is Here

As a Gather member you can connect with an international group of community-minded journalists, view the membership directory, collect your favorite resources, and access members-only content including Lightning Chats from the past three years.

What We Learned From Starting the Slack GatherMods

Responding to feedback provided an opportunity to practice engagement with our community.

Introducing the New Gather

Nearly three years after launching and with over 2500 registered members worldwide, the Gather website is getting a new look. We’re making resources, case studies, and featured projects easier to find. And we’ll continue to support our community of practice of engaged journalists who are making journalism more responsive to the public’s needs

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Welcome to Gather

Gather is a project + platform to support community-minded journalists and other engagement professionals. Our mission: make journalism more responsive to the public’s needs and more inclusive of the public’s voices and diversity, by helping journalists, educators, and students who share these values find each other, find resources and best practices, and find support and mentorship. Learn more about Gather.

The Latest

Resources

JMR’s Particpipatory Journalism Playbook

This playbook by jesikah maria ross is a guide to participatory journalism. The playbook is intended to help you select and develop stories in conversation with the communities most affected by a certain issue; design a reporting process that generates

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Case Studies

How Grace Weber’s Music Lab Used Music to Connect With Students Throughout Milwaukee

Grace Weber’s Music Lab, forged from collaboration between music artist Grace Weber and 88Nine Radio Milwaukee, is a free, monthly music and arts education program aimed at teaching high school students across Milwaukee, Wisconsin, about music and the entertainment industry.

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Featured Projects

Record Your Stories: KOSU’s ‘Audio Diaries’

KOSU has recognized the need for sharing our human experience during unstable times like these throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Communities are coming together now more than ever, and this is the quintessential time to gather safely and digitally to listen to each other’s stories.

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What People on Gather are Saying

“Gather has absolutely validated my career path, taught me the language to talk about the work, gives me connections in a world where it feels like there’s no set path, and challenges how I show up in the communities & organizations in which I serve.”

Mary Willson, EdNC

“Gather is an incredibly helpful group of people, and I’m always amazed by how generous other journalists are in sharing ideas, advice and strategies.”

Taylor Blatchford, The Seattle Times

“I keep searching for places where I can ask for new opinions, learn from someone else’s experience and share ideas to build a different kind of journalism. I really feel like Gather is one such place.”

Francesco Zaffarano, The Telegraph