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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 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 Twitter Bots Have Exposed Frequent “Dark Money” Campaign Expenditures

Michelle Porter | June 2018

The Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting (AZCIR) developed what is now known as the “AZ Dark Money Bot,” or @AZDarkMoneyBot, a Twitter bot that enables the automation of “dark money” expenditure reporting. The Bot’s tweets include names of the groups, candidates receiving dark money, and campaign spending.

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How University of Oregon Students Used Engagement Techniques to Meet Community Information Needs

Emily Poole | May 2018

University of Oregon’s Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) launched their Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) in La Pine, Oregon and partnered with other departments across campus including the SOJC’s engaged journalism class. They developed an engagement strategy to support the information health of La Pine.

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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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How Civil Beat’s Civil Café Facilitates Community Dialogue and Discussion Through Public Meetups

Danny Peterson | April 2018

Civil Beat’s Civil Café series convenes influencers and knowledge experts to debate and discuss important Hawaii issues in front of an active and engaged audience. Most discussions are moderated by a Civil Beat editor or reporter, and cover timely and topical issues complementary to Civil Beat reporting like climate change, legislative issues, and economic welfare.

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How PRI Hears and Raises Immigrant Voices Through the ‘Global Nation Exchange’

Riley Stevenson | November 2017

Public Radio International (PRI) launched the reporting project Global Nation in 2012 to cover the “real-world stories of immigrants in the United States—their challenges, successes and how uneven US immigration laws affect their lives.” PRI then created the Global Nation Exchange to foster discussion between immigrants and help ground editorial decisions in what was most important to them.

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How Vox Built and Sustained a Facebook Community for Obamacare Enrollees

Riley Stevenson | October 2017

In November 2016, Vox started a Facebook group called What’s Next? A Community for Obamacare Enrollees by Vox. Vox focused on inviting people who rely on the Affordable Care Act for health insurance coverage and who weren’t sure what the 2016 election — and Republicans’ promises of repeal — meant for them. It was later renamed to “VoxCare.”

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