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How America Amplified: Election 2020 Used CE to Foster Dialogue and Elevate Diverse Voices

America Amplified, Sarah Shively | April 2021

The efforts of the America Amplified initiative culminated in a six-part, national radio talk show, America Amplified: Election 2020, which explored the social challenges facing Americans before and after the November national election.

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How La Nacion’s Got Argentines Stranded Abroad Back Home During the Pandemic

LA NACION, Monica Salazar | April 2021

La Nacion launched Stranded Abroad collecting information and sharing stories from those trapped in foreign countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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How Reveal Discovered Issues with the 2020 Census on the Ground

Matt Park, Reveal | April 2021

In early 2020, Reveal launched Seeing 2020, a national collaborative reporting initiative to help newsrooms around the country find ways to improve their coverage of the 2020 Census.

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How and NewsInside Reached the Incarcerated Community

Jenna Deml, The Marshall Project | April 2021

The Marshall Project’s NewsInside, a print publication distributed in prisons and jails, is a collection of TMP’s journalism that relates directly to incarcerated lives.

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How CapRadio Collaborated with the Meadowview Community to Construct Their Own Narrative

Capital Public Radio, Maia Laperle | March 2021

CapRadio spent a year listening and learning about Sacramento’s Meadowview neighborhood which came to prominence as the place where police shot and killed Stephon Clark.

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How the Dallas Morning News connects with curious Texans

Christena Dowsett, The Dallas Morning News | March 2021

The Dallas Morning News’ Curious Texas is an engagement project that allows readers to ask questions and for reporters to answer them

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How Searchlight New Mexico Used Crowdsourcing to Investigate Restraint and Seclusion

Jahlysa Azaret, Searchlight New Mexico | October 2020

In 2019, the year-long Criminalizing Disability project investigated special education in New Mexico. One of the four most common experiences parents described was the restraint and seclusion of disabled students within the Albuquerque School District.

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How Stories of Atlantic City Brought Restorative Narrative to Journalists and Community Members

Madeleine Feldman | August 2020

Stories of Atlantic City was created to shed light on marginalized communities and individuals while building a collaborative space for journalists and residents to work together.

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How City of Disparity Addressed the Problems Affecting the People of Peoria

Payton Bruni | January 2019

In 2015 the business website 24/7 Wall St. released a report that ranked Peoria, Illinois, as one of the 10 worst cities to live in for African Americans in the United States. Following the report, the Journal Star newsroom of Peoria launched City of Disparity, a year-long reporting project that examined the city’s disparities.

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How Feeding the Future Used Engagement Journalism to Tackle Climate Change and Agriculture

Payton Bruni | November 2018

In order to take a different route in covering climate change and agriculture, MPR News, the news service of Minnesota Public Radio, launched Feeding the Future, an engagement journalism project set on informing its audience members and identifying solutions to a rapidly changing climate.

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How Vox Used Crowdsourcing to Bring Transparency to Emergency Room Fees

Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, Vox Media | June 2018

In October 2017, Vox launched a year-long crowdsourcing project to collect readers’ emergency room bills and bring more transparency to these costs. At the time of producing this case study, Vox has collected more than 1,500 bills since launching the project and produced multiple stories.

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How NBC Left Field’s Tag Project Engaged With Audience Members to Tell Their Stories

Payton Bruni | May 2018

NBC Left Field is a short documentary unit established by NBC News in 2017. The project team set out to create a number of new series geared towards social media platforms and bridge the gap between audiences and journalists. One of these series, Tag, strives to engage with its viewers and create loyal followers by crowdsourcing their video topics. 

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