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Podcast: The Listening Post Collective Listens to Local Media Mavens
Two local media partners and a funder talk about how they are coping during the COVID-19 pandemic and with racial issues
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In the United States, we work on community-based media projects that expand two-way conversations between audiences and media producers. Internews supports the Listening Post Collective which provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.
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The Listening Post Collective to Support and Grow Innovative Storytelling Project in New Orleans
With support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Internews’ Listening Post Collective will incubate Lede New Orleans, a startup community media organization led by former Times-Picayune journalist Jennifer Larino and filmmaker Ejaaz Mason.
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Discussion Links Environmental, Racial Justice Issues
Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) held a discussion on environmental justice issues and how they intersect with public health and are often compounded by deep, embedded racial and social inequities.
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JMR’S Participatory Journalism Playbook
July 17, 2020
Toolkit & Curriculum
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Humboldt Area Foundation Launches Project to Support Local Media
(Internews and other regional partners are working with Access Humboldt to promote community voices to strengthen local media reporting and citizen journalism.)
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Grassroots Movements for Local News
Free Press’ News Voices project recently hosted a conversation with community organizers and journalists who are creating inspiring local-news initiatives from scratch.
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3 Ways Local News Initiatives Are Serving Crucial COVID-19 Information to People in News Deserts
Engagement collaborations, texting platforms, community media are trying to reach people in underserved communities where journalists are scarce.
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How El Tímpano passes the mic to Spanish-speaking and Indigenous immigrant communities
Journalist Madeleine Bair on Oakland's media deserts and reaching communities where they’re at.
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Four strategies for identifying and assessing news and information needs during the COVID-19 pandemic
This is new for all of us. Never before in our lifetimes have we had to deal with a mass pandemic, large-scale quarantines, or economic disruptions at this scale.
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In solidarity
We stand in solidarity with those demanding justice and an end to racism in the United States and around the world. Elevating the voices of those who have been suppressed or ignored is central to our mission.