Gather – A platform to support community-minded journalists

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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

Understanding Grassroots Information Systems and Needs in Chicago

While trust in media is low, communities always find ways to share news and information—here’s what we learned from our latest listening project. Since 2016 the Public Newsroom has brought people together to discuss, debate and deconstruct how news and

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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

‘Rona Call: A Community-Info Phone Tree

Free Press’ News Voices team created a guide to help their community reach out to five folks and ask them a series of questions about what information they need to stay safe, healthy, and connected. The News Voices also relayed

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What People on Gather are Saying

“Gather folks really care about journalism, telling stories and looking for different ways to reach people in their communities with the information they want and need. I want to make a difference in creating relationships with people outside our audience.”

David Rodriguez, Reveal

“I’m interested in helping to eliminate barriers that keep journalism and information sharing exclusive. I love that Gather not only shares examples of how to create collaboratively with communities but is a collaborative community itself!”

Maia Laperle, The Village Free School

“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