At NFCB's semi-annual Community Media Conference in Salt Lake City, there was fear and uncertainty in the air, but there was also a sense of collective wisdom and defiant vitality. The post Architects of Sound, Anchors of Community: Takeaways from NFCB 2025 first appeared on Listening Post Collective.| Listening Post Collective
At the Listening Post Collective, our Civic Media Playbook helps community members—beyond traditional journalism—build stronger information ecosystems. Discover how rural schools like Horse Creek Academy are becoming trusted sources of local news.| Listening Post Collective
By Jesse Hardman and Amy L. Kovac-Ashley It’s really hard to escape the word “scale” in today’s journalism space, which can cover everything from franchising a news idea to audience numbers. Since we can’t escape the question of scale, we’re going to define it for our own purposes. Listening to communities + peer collaborations =| Listening Post Collective
- Anika Anand just stepped down after five years from her post as Deputy Director of LION Publishers, a membership organization that helps more than 500 local news entrepreneurs build and maintain sustainable businesses. Anika's been reflecting on some of the key insights she's learned during the nearly five years she's worked at LION including the The future of news is independently-owned journalism startups who identify as community-centered businesses. Not as catchy a headline as the more ...| Listening Post Collective
It wouldn't be the end of year without sharing some highlights and headlines. In this newsletter we've got some end of year reflections from places as diverse as Kiev and Trenton, New Jersey. We asked them to share something meaningful from their civic media work this year. - It wouldn't be the end of year without sharing some highlights and headlines. In this newsletter we've got some end of year reflections from places as diverse as Kyiv and Trenton, New Jersey. We asked them to share somet...| Listening Post Collective