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
One of our closest collaborators over the years, Andrew DeVigal, the director of the Agora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon, wrote a memorable editorial recently about his vision for a thriving, trusted media ecosystem in the state. In the midst of a local legislative push to get tech giants like Meta and Google| 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
How to divest from the “news desert” framework by listening to and supporting locally-grown civic media makers and projects to help them thrive long-term.| 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
This month we say goodbye to an amazing colleague and friend, Silvia Rivera, who has transformed our work over the past 3+ years. We're so luck to have worked with such a thoughtful, mission driven, and incredibly fun person. Here are Silvia's parting words of wisdom on the LPC stage. - This month we say goodbye to an amazing colleague and friend, Silvia Rivera, who has transformed our work over the past 3+ years. We're so lucky to have worked with such a thoughtful, mission driven, and incre...| Listening Post Collective - -A Civic Media Help Desk
I thought I was done with journalism after being in the business for almost 30. After a period of time the journalism industry had lost some of its luster to me amidst widespread layoffs, I didn’t see journalism as being a sustainable path to my future and taking care of a family. It wasn’t until my family and I moved to Trenton, New Jersey in 2021 that I began to change my mind about getting back into the media business. One of our newest Listening Post Collective members, reporter Kenny...| Listening Post Collective
As part of a 2011 information ecosystem assessment of tribal areas, we spent some time learning and most importantly listening to how White Earth and Pine Ridge residents are developing culturally relevant information channels to keep residents up on all the news they need to know. - It’s hard to get more remote than the White Earth tribal reservation up near the Minnesota, Canadian border and the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. With these kinds of geographic isolations you’d assu...| Listening Post Collective
The Listening Post Collective recently caught up with Andrea Wenzel, the author of the new book, Antiracist Journalism: The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News. Wenzel explores how to identify and deal with structural racism in US newsrooms.| Listening Post Collective