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There are several good/insightful/compelling pieces for Nieman Journalism Lab's annual predictions from people in the business of journalism. I deeply appreciate Jennifer Brandel's contribution. "I propose we add the lenses of love and care to our reporting goggles, so that humans and other life forms can see reality more accurately.As jesikah maria ross says, “Care is love made practical.” 2024, and American democracy calling for a metric shit-ton of practicality." https://lnkd.in/dViJMEkC

4 ways pro-democracy and journalism funders can act now to address misinformation in the 2024 election cycle: 🙌Fund the organizers and experts who are mobilizing against misinformation. 📰Fund newsrooms who are sharing trustworthy information. 💖Protect the messengers who are vulnerable to physical, digital, and legal threats. 📊Ensure newsrooms have the flexibility to adapt within an unpredictable political environment. Link in comments to see examples from Free Press, MediaJustice, Check My Ads Institute, Protect Democracy, Over Zero, Democracy SOS, Center for Cooperative Media, The Center for Community Media's Maps & Directories, Institute for Nonprofit News' Network, the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund, NewsMatch, Press Forward, Lenfest Institute for Journalism, and more!

A key aspect of community engagement centers on people being able to access information easily and efficiently via local news platforms. Recent research out of Northwestern's State of Local News Project provides a county-by-county snapshot of media outlets across the nation showing how levels of affluence affect access to local journalism. Checked my own experience on this map to see how it tracked — when I worked as a fulltime journalism teacher in uber-affluent Silicon Valley (median 2022 household income, per U.S. census report = ~ $153,000), my immediate surrounding county (Santa Clara county) shows 23 local news outlets. Compare that to my current home of Winnebago County in Illinois (median 2022 household income, per U.S. census report = ~ $61,000): 8 news outlets — primarily broadcast, but also a legacy newspaper a step away from extinction. In the short term, agree that philanthropy may be the necessary stop-gap support required to sustain the "fire line" to slow loss and attrition of local news outlets and help keep local journalism alive, while we collectively figure out a better, sustainable economic model for journalism in years ahead

This is such a useful post from Angelica Das with specific examples and ideas. What other examples and projects would you add? 

A great case for local community is coming from the journalism industry. In this summary of Engaging Emergence, a convening around Journalism that Matters, some key take-aways: - "What is our responsibility to be community members first, then trusted based on that relationship?" - "How do we cohere in a way that serves us all?" - Many expressed the joy of finding a “tribe” within the community of practitioners. “It is refreshing to have these conversations and to know that some of the 18 Engaging Emergence: Advancing the Future of Journalism for All problems I have are other people are going through the same. We are not alone.” - "We saw clear evidence that journalism as a profession is poised on a precipice, between survival and demise, between tired, traditional and problematic norms and routines and an emergent paradigm of community building. In these open-ended responses we heard keen determination to change with very clear ideas of what needed to happen, as revealed in these statements..." Watch a short summary and/or read the complete share-out here: https://lnkd.in/gW7H3Zmk

Finally, #MediaCoverage of #Leftist #MediaBias by the long-time stalwart #JohnStossel in this interesting piece by #TonyBonnani. What's particularly interesting is #Stossel's #JournalisticInsights that deconstruct how some of today's #Political #PublicAffairs #Journalists "stack the deck" against #Centrists and #Conservatives in their #AgendaSetting Reporting, e.g., Labels, Interviews and More. Enjoy. Good story here about bad news.

⭐ Check out #GIJN's Top Ten Stories of 2023 — a mix of our most popular stories, great reads, #datajournalism best practices, game-changing reporting tips, and panel takeaways, put together by senior staff reporter Rowan Philp. ⬇️ #investigativejournalism #investigativereporting #globalinvestigativejournalismnetwork #datajournalism #journalismtips

Calling all journalists. How do you find stories? That's the question I get all the time. Be everywhere, in person and online. Start with groups like Nextdoor, Facebook, and even conversations on Reddit. See what the public is talking about. That's where you will find stories because you see what people talk about. #CallingAllJournalists #localnews #journalism https://lnkd.in/guWc-pSc