Posts about Community News Networks

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...

On September 13, the Journalism + Design lab co-hosted a luncheon with our partners at the New Jersey Council for the Humanities (NJCH) to celebrate the work that community colleges in...

In fall 2021, a diverse group of students, local organizers and community members based in Philadelphia gathered via Zoom to learn the fundamentals of community-centered news. They were participating in...

Last year was a busy one for us at the Journalism + Design lab, and we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the community-based programs we supported in 2023 and...

Perusing the first round of grantees from the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium (NJCIC), you’ll notice a trend: nearly half of the projects are rooted in equipping more people across...