News Ambassadors

News Ambassadors enlists college journalism students to help local newsrooms fill gaps in coverage of underreported communities with stories that uplift evidence-based solutions and common ground – and are responsive to local community needs. To do this, we foster collaborations between journalism schools, local newsrooms and community organizations to listen and learn what’s missing from local news coverage. Then, News Ambassadors trains journalism students in reporting tools - specifically Solutions Journalism and a depolarization reporting strategy called Complicating the Narratives, so they can report stories informed by one of these approaches and by insights learned from listening to community members themselves. Professors share top stories with local newsroom partners for vetting and possible broadcast. To support the process, we also pair each class with a dissimilar counterpart in another part of the country to collaborate as they each report local stories using these new tools.

所属行业

广播媒体制作和发布

规模

2-10 人

类型

非营利机构

领域

Solutions Journalism、Depolarization Reporting Strategies/Complicating the Narratives、Engagement Journalism、Radio Reporting、Audio Journalism、Collaborative Journalism、News-Academic Partnerships、Public Radio Reporting和Audio Storytelling