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Your place in engagement journalism: a conversation with Sue Robinson

Sebastián Auyanet, Sue Robinson | January 2024

In this Lightning Chat, Sebastián Auyanet hosted a conversation with Sue Robinson about the four emergent roles she sees for journalists in the future: relationship builder, community collaborator, conversation facilitator and professional network builder.

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How Ideastream Built Trust with the Woodhill Homes Community and Brought Awareness to a Larger Audience

Ideastream, Justin Glanville | July 2021

To increase awareness and understanding of Woodhill, create feelings of empowerment and “voice” among its residents, and create social connections between them, Ideastream Public Media launched Inside the Bricks: Woodhill Homes.

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How the Idaho News Organizations Collaborated to Engage Latino Students and their Families

Nicole Foy, Sami Edge | July 2021

The Latino Listening Project aims to fill potential gaps in education coverage and examine education inequities in the state’s school system based on Latino students’ unique experiences and their families.

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Reporting Beyond the Problem: From Civic Journalism to Solutions Journalism

Andrew DeVigal, Karen McIntyre Hopkinson, Nicole Smith Dahmen | May 2021

This book provides an in-depth examination of socially-responsible news reporting practices, such as constructive journalism, solutions journalism, and peace journalism. Chapter 7, in particular, focuses on Engaged Journalism as a way to shift power dynamics to increase public participation.

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People Before Problems: Building Trust To Tell A Community’s Story

Ideastream | April 2021

Embarking on a two-year project to cover a public housing neighborhood on the verge of a rebuild, WCPN reporter Justin Glanville and editor Mike McIntyre wanted to avoid reinforcing stereotypes and tropes of both Black and low-income communities. Justin and Laura Fillbach share some lessons learned from his reporting and the resulting podcast “Inside the Bricks: Woodhill Homes.”

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How La Nación 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 Vox Used a Reporting Network to Investigate Data, Privacy, Algorithms, and AI

Emily Hamilton, Vox Media | March 2021

Vox launched Open Sourced Reporting Network to collaboratively investigate and learn about the “new frontiers of data, privacy, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.”

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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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Behind the scenes of a high impact project on anti-Asian hate

Kristine Lois Villanueva | February 2021

Kristine Lois Villanueva knew she wanted to create a project examining the rise in COVID-19 related anti-Asian hate from a national perspective, but finding ways to bring in engagement was a constantly moving target. Join this chat to learn about how Kristine made strategic decisions when challenges arose, and how the project was cited in legislation from the local to national levels. 

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In Conversation with Andrea Wenzel & her book

Andrea Wenzel | February 2021

In this slightly different Lightning Chat, Andrew DeVigal talked with Andrea Wenzel about her book “Community-Centered Journalism: Engaging People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust.” In the book, Andrea “models new practices of community-centered journalism that build trust across boundaries of politics, race, and class, and prioritize solutions while engaging the full range of local stakeholders.”

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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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