The Agora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon, with support from Robert Bosch Stiftung and News Integrity Initiative, has launched the project “Engaging communities: reflecting on the work of engaged journalism.” News media organizations in Europe and North America can apply for grants to fund engagement activities.
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Finding Reason in Difficult Conversations
Thanksgiving, an opportunity to express our gratitude over a meal, can also be a time for us to find common ground with those with different perspectives.
The Importance of Collaboration Between Newsrooms and Their Communities
What role should communities play in the journalistic process? Strategic Communication masters student Keegan Clements-Housser takes on that question in his new report.
SOJC offers 5 community engagement tips for journalists
According to the tenets of civic engagement, those who live in a community are best qualified to identify its problems and most invested in finding solutions. To start regaining the public’s waning trust in the media and improve the relevance and accuracy of the news, journalists are beginning to ask community members what they should cover and how they should cover it.
UO report examines how journalists can regain public trust
What’s driving that growing sense of distrust in the media? And what might be done to repair it? Those questions are at the heart of a year-long research project from the SOJC.
Rattled: Oregon’s Concussion Discussion is a joint project
Rattled: Oregon’s Concussion Discussion is a joint project of InvestigateWest, Pamplin Media Group and the Agora Journalism Center, made possible in part by grants from Meyer Memorial Trust and the Center for Cooperative Media.
Studying Emerging Engagement
How do we know that audience engagement works? And how do we define success in the first place? Thomas R. Schmidt takes on these questions.
New initiative Finding Common Ground offers funding for newsrooms to expand existing engagement projects
The Agora Journalism Center will provide seven grants of up to €10,000 each to European and North American news organisations.
Gather platform helps journalists who give the public a voice
To help connect people working in engaged journalism, the Agora Journalism Center recently launched Gather, a project and platform to support community-minded journalists and other communications professionals.
Agora to host engaged journalism workshops
To broaden the impact of the emerging community of engaged journalism practitioners, the Agora Journalism Center will be hosting engagement workshops across the United States with the support of a $100,000 grant from the Democracy Fund.