The Local Journalism Foundation was created to reverse civic decline through storytelling and citizen engagement. Our theory of change is that democracies work best with diverse and representative, abundant, high-quality, trusted, useful, and free-flowing information. The Local Journalism Foundation equips people with skills and resources, facilitates critical public conversations, and produces information that directly addresses the needs of the people of Kalamazoo County. We also aspire to strengthen civic media — a more participatory and equity-focused form of journalism — as a field.
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Our friends at Factory Coffee make partnerships fun and easy: To help get more voters informed on their local elections, we put QR codes and URLs linking to NowKalamazoo's election resources on the sleeves of coffee cups. Next time you're visiting any of Factory's three locations, give it a scan and see the latest election news, check out our election FAQ, or even register to vote via our site. Thanks, Dan and Emmy!
NowKalamazoo was one of 17 local news operations chosen from among 70 applicants nationwide for this award. Congrats to the team!
We're extremely grateful to the U.S. Democracy Day team that has awarded NowKalamazoo with a reporting stipend that will help fund our 2024 election coverage. We're proud of our reader-first focus, and our election coverage will take this same approach — emphasizing voters, their concerns, and policies and their impacts. Stay tuned for more details on our editorial plans! https://lnkd.in/eDTaacPS
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News avoidance is on the rise. Journalists feel it, and the research shows it: The news feels irrelevant, unrelatable, anxiety-inducing, and untrustworthy – and that's causing more and more people to avoid it altogether. This is harmful, of course, to journalists’ overall relevance and newsrooms’ sustainability. But it also has deeper, and more dangerous, social implications.? So what can journalists do? Start here with these three things you should know about news avoiders. ?? Ready to take action? We have two opportunities for you. ? Join a free Q&A on March 19 with news avoidance researcher and author Benjamin Toff. The conversation will leave you with concrete strategies to try to reach news avoiders with your journalism. ? Apply for the Confronting News Avoidance program, where you’ll work alongside Trusting News staff and a cohort of newsrooms to implement strategies in your newsroom. More information here. https://lnkd.in/g79vxaxS