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The Local Journalism Foundation, Inc.

The Local Journalism Foundation, Inc.

非盈利组织

Kalamazoo,Michigan 22 位关注者

Civic Media For The Common Good

关于我们

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.

网站
https://localjournalismfoundation.org
所属行业
非盈利组织
规模
1 人
总部
Kalamazoo,Michigan
类型
非营利机构
创立
2023

地点

  • 主要

    315 W Michigan Ave

    US,Michigan,Kalamazoo,49007

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  • The Local Journalism Foundation, Inc.转发了

    查看NowKalamazoo的组织主页

    299 位关注者

    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!

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  • NowKalamazoo was one of 17 local news operations chosen from among 70 applicants nationwide for this award. Congrats to the team!

    查看NowKalamazoo的组织主页

    299 位关注者

    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

  • The Local Journalism Foundation, Inc.转发了

    查看Trusting News的组织主页

    2,920 位关注者

    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

    • 3 things journalists should understand about news avoiders 

Based on research and findings from the book “Avoiding the News: Reluctant Audiences for Journalism”
    • 1. “News is hard to understand.”

Often, the news feels like an insider’s game, full of jargon and missing context. If you’re not already an insider, paying close attention, daily journalism is too often just not designed for you to comprehend.
    • 2. “News doesn’t feel like it’s for me.”

News lovers believe it’s a civic duty, and even a matter of morality, to be informed. News avoiders, however, think about the news as being aimed at other people — people with different education, different economic situations and different amounts of leisure time.
    • And some news avoiders feel that the news poorly represents people like them. They could be thinking of people of color, young people, locals, conservatives, immigrants, etc.
    • 3. “News is bad for me and bad for society.”

The news often makes people feel anxious and overwhelmed. It’s full of depressing information, and it leaves them feeling hopeless about the state of the world. And many assume the news is skewed, with shady motives.
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