Category Community Listening

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Community Listening, Ecosystem Developments, Features, News Leader Interviews

Enlace Latino NC marks five year milestone of audience-focused, Spanish-language news

By Catherine Komp, NC Local Editor When Paola Jaramillo and Walter Gómez launched Enlace Latino NC in 2018, they had extensive resumes in journalism and a $75,000 grant from the NC Local News Lab Fund. They also had a strong…

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September 6, 2023

Community Listening, Features

‘A cycle of impact and engagement’: CJC’s Chris Rudisill talks about connecting journalists and communities to investigate solutions

By Eric Frederick, NC Local Newsletter Editor Four years ago, the Solutions Journalism Network started the Charlotte Journalism Collaborative to help connect area residents and journalists in examining solutions to community challenges. The new partners chose to tackle the shortage…

sbowen5
May 23, 2023

Community Listening

Collaboration and connection drive news needs in Western NC

By Fiona Morgan, Consultant to the Workshop Collaboration and connection were the major themes in a conversation about local news and information held just before Thanksgiving on the campus of Western Carolina University in a rural, mountainous part of…

sbowen5
November 30, 2022

Community Listening

Tips for community listening

When Shannan Bowen became executive director of the North Carolina Local News Workshop last year, her top priority was a listening project — to learn how communities, especially underserved ones, get (or don’t get) the news and information they need. The findings would then help news providers change, collaborate and innovate to engage and serve those communities better.

nclocalnews
September 28, 2022

Community Listening

Tips for community listening

Check out the full NC Local newsletter from September 28 for more from the Workshop, including industry news, job postings and shout-outs to journalists statewide. Sign up to get NC Local in your inbox every Wednesday. By Eric Frederick, NC…

nclocalnews
September 28, 2022