A strong foundation for a new chapter

In its first six years, before the pandemic and the wrenching 2020 election cycle, Agora Journalism Center established a focus on innovative civic engagement by journalists and the media. These reports, publications, projects, and tools have deeply informed our redoubled attention to understanding and improving civic health through local storytelling.

Advancing Community-Centered Journalism

A practical and provocative set of lessons and experiences for journalists who are new to the community-centered approach and those already practicing it. Damian interviews over a dozen leading thinkers and practitioners about how CCJ is implemented in various news organizations.

Assessing Oregon’s Local News & Information Ecosystem 2022

This report represents one step toward assessing the state of local news in Oregon and what can be done to strengthen it. Counting and mapping Oregon’s local news producers will track further changes. And by looking at initiatives underway around the country, Oregon’s newsrooms, educators, funders, and policy-makers can consider emerging innovations to build the vitality of Oregon’s local news that mean communities’ information needs.