“How might your campus equip more people to get, share, and discuss reliable information about what’s happening in the places where they live?”  That’s the question the Journalism + Design...

We’re thrilled to introduce the four colleges selected for 2025 Community News Transformation Grants, a new collaborative initiative from the Journalism + Design Lab and the New Mexico Local News...

The Journalism + Design Lab has received funding from Press Forward to weave community colleges into local news infrastructure and build pathways for more people to produce, share, and act on...

If you were an elected official in Cleveland, what would your first act be?  That’s a question at the core of My Cleveland Agenda, a collaboration between the Journalism +...

In January 2024, Mercer County Community College (MCCC) hosted its first Community Journalism Lab, or J Lab, a noncredit certificate program designed to train and support new community reporters from...

How did you last learn about something happening in your community — a newspaper or a neighbor?  In today’s America, the odds are high it was a neighbor, or another source within...

When Ariana Martinez Lott was selected for the Fresno Community Journalism Fellowship last summer, she was a former city employee eager to get involved in the “business of neighboring.” “I’m...

In partnership with New Mexico Local News Fund, Journalism + Design will award a total of $120,000 in seed funding to New Mexico community colleges for projects that improve the...

Journalism + Design at The New School (J+D) is excited to announce the Community College Civic Info Challenge, a new initiative to grow creative local news and civic information projects...

When I look back at the Journalism + Design lab’s work this year, I’m amazed at the creative ways we’ve seen people across the country stepping up to help keep...