“As a small publisher, I’m always looking for ways to better connect with readers. Working my way through the Playbook allowed me to learn more about the different communities I serve and learn things I didn’t know. The Playbook reinforced the need for me, as a writer/publisher, not to view my statewide communities as monolithic because, using the Playbook, I took a deeper dive on my community and saw them uniquely.”| Listening Post Collective
Listening is in our name for a reason: It’s the most important step we take in our civic media design process. Because nobody knows a community better than the people who live there. During this phase, we take six months to a year, working with communities to understand where information is already being exchanged, what information people are missing, and how they want to get it.| Listening Post Collective
Information Garden (n.)| Listening Post Collective
The Inland Empire is one of the most diverse and fastest growing regions in California, and central to this growth is its vibrant Latino community. Latinos now comprise a majority of the region’s population at 51.5% – an estimated 2.37 million people. Latino growth rates in the Inland Empire are significantly higher than the Southern California average. Despite this growth, the Latino community in Riverside and San Bernardino counties still face significant challenges in the areas of educ...| Center for Social Innovation
When we use certain vocab to describe our work, we want to be clear about what we mean. Words matter, and these have helped us to adequately identify the challenges communities face in accessing local news and information in the U.S.| Listening Post Collective