On Tuesday night more than 80 people came together for a conversation about how residents and journalists can work together to tell Atlantic City’s story.
Last night in New Brunswick, more than 120 people demonstrated what’s possible when neighbors, church leaders, students, educators and journalists sit together at the same table.
There’s often a real distance between journalists and the communities they’re supposed to serve. To make local reporting more viable and vibrant, it needs to consider perspectives from outside the news industry.
One of the best parts about the News Voices: New Jersey project is getting to meet with and listen to our members in the Garden State. And many of those members have told us that their communities aren’t getting close to enough local news coverage.
We asked our New Jersey members to tell us how they consume news, what issues they care about, and how well they feel local media reflect their communities. More than 300 people responded — and their answers were telling.
Just days after the one-year anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown, St. Louis County filed charges against three reporters who were arrested in 2014 while covering the Ferguson protests.
The conversation about the future of journalism tends to focus on how to save newspapers, adopt new technologies and find sustainable business models.
While these efforts are important, they focus on the business of journalism while overlooking journalism’s purpose — and the people it serves.
The recent events in Baltimore have brought into sharp focus the perils of journalists and everyday people who exercise their constitutionally protected rights to record police activity.
