The Center for Community Media

It's Election Eve! I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the phenomenal work AAPI community news media have done to engage and serve AAPI voters -- the fastest growing and for far too long least served voting bloc in the U.S. Up 15% since 2020, voting eligible AAPI have the potential to determine election outcomes in the most fiercely contested states in the U.S.: Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and are hugely influential in Ohio, Texas, and of course in California, Hawaii, New Jersey, and New York. Our national elections reporting cohort draws to a close with incredible journalism serving Arab American voters in Michigan (The Arab American News) and Pennsylvania (Al Bustan News), Hmong American voters in Wisconsin (Nyob Zoo TV), Indian American voters in Georgia (Khabar Magazine), and Filipino American voters in Nevada (Philippine Times of Southern Nevada). Read their latest stories in our most recent CCM newsletter: https://lnkd.in/ezaCCT2w We know AAPI media offer a powerful pathway to informing and engaging voters in their own languages and cultural contexts. We are not alone in this conviction! For the first time in history, a presidential campaign has placed opeds in Chinese-language (World Journal), Korean-language (Yonhap News Agency), Filipino American (Asian Journal), South Asian American (The Juggernaut), and Vietnamese American (Việt Báo Daily News) community news media outlets. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eCHRqu2D As the first and only national program supporting in-language and community based AAPI community media in the U.S., we are honored to have had a hand in bringing visibility to this critical resource for engaging and serving AAPI voters. We have been offering a range of resources, trainings, and community spaces for AAPI media journalists throughout this election cycle: https://lnkd.in/eF7VEk8B You can discover and engage with AAPI news media coverage during this election and beyond in our national AAPI News Media Map & Directory, featuring 683 outlets serving AAPI in 56 languages. https://lnkd.in/enTkPGNp

📣 📣 Open application alert! We are thrilled to introduce the #AI Community Engagement Lab — a tuition-free training program designed to help #communitymedia journalists harness the power of AI to enhance #audience engagement and better serve their communities. 📣 📣 This six-month program, in partnership with Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY's J+ program and supported by the Walton Family Foundation, will offer: 📓 Biweekly virtual classes ✍ Hands-on workshops 👩🏫 Expert coaching ⌨️ A final project 👯 A mandatory in-person kickoff in NYC on March 17-18, 2025 (with travel stipends available) Open to community journalists in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and other U.S. territories, this program will equip participants with the skills to integrate AI into their work, ensuring they stay at the forefront of innovation in local news. Don’t get left behind! Learn to use #GenAI to: Increase reporting and editing efficiencies and accuracy Personalize content and engage audiences Expand coverage and reach Help with marketing and business communications Applications are open now until December 6, 2024. Limited spots available, so don’t wait! Learn more and apply today ↓ https://lnkd.in/ewRX3PPN

Applications are open for the AI Community Engagement Lab! Encouraging all AAPI community journos to submit your applications — AI is already impacting and transforming how we report, connect with our audiences, do business, and learn. Take advantage of this tuition-free opportunity to get your arms around these new technologies. Applications due Dec. 6.

Have you subscribed to our #newsletter yet? Every Friday at 10am you'll get either our jobs, event, opportunities listings with a curated list of the latest media news or one of our features about our research, programming, Q+As, and more! https://lnkd.in/gu6SAgBu You can take a look at our past issues here! https://lnkd.in/ghcwntBE #journalism #newsletters #communitymedia #media #medianews #hyperlocal #localnews #mediaindustry #newsphilanthropy #cuny

It's both exciting and meaningful to see so many community media outlets as recipients in this latest round of funding! Community media outlets are on the front lines of not just local news but preserving and strengthening democracy. That these outlets all have an annual budget of less than $1 million means this support will have a huge impact on their ability to serve Black, Latino, and Asian American communities in particular.

🚨Happening TODAY from 11a-1p EST! #elections #USelections #aappi #aapivoters #aapirepresentation #communitymedia #journalism #media #electionscoverage

Are you wondering how to cover the fastest growing demographic of American voters less than a month before Election Day? Come hear our Asian Media Initiative delve into that and AAPI community issues on October 15! RSVP at https://lnkd.in/gPgiRtP7 Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote (APIAVote) #aapivote #asianamerican #voters #elections #2024elections #gotv #registertovote #journalism #communitymedia #localnews #hyperlocal #hyperlocalnews

Are you a current student or alum who wants to learn to cover conflict in new ways? This workshop is for you, then. The workshop will explore conflict journalism in several ways: 🔹 Distinguish between "High Conflict" and "Good Conflict" and recognize the value of having "Good Conflict." 🔹 Locate what the conflict is really about rather than what it appears to be about. 🔹 Find the most interesting, unexplored parts of a conflict, referred to by speakers Amanda Ripley and Hélène Biandudi Hofer as the "Understory." 🔹 Make sense of behaviors and patterns that seem to be inexplicable. 🔹 Find and tell stories that reveal the dimensions of a particular conflict to the communities you serve. When: Oct. 22 @ 6-8 pm https://lnkd.in/es7FdBTt

📢 Community media! Funding and support from Report for America is an amazing opportunity 📢