Nationwide collaborative reporting project hopes to shed light on threats to American democratic process — Democracy Day is an effort announced earlier this year to draw attention to the crisis facing American democracy, provide the public with the context and information they need, and bring all types of media together to sound the alarm collectively. We want to incentivize media coverage through a nationwide journalism…

Read Marina Walker Guevara’s keynote from the 2022 Collaborative Journalism Summit — By Marina Walker Guevara Editor’s note: The following keynote address was given by Marina Walker Guevara at the 2022 Collaborative Journalism Summit. It is being published here with her permission. In the video below, you can watch Marina deliver the address and see an in-depth conversation between her and mago torres, data editor for…

Help us celebrate a decade of cooperative media, and prepare for the next one — How time flies! The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University will celebrate its 10th birthday this year. (In July, to be exact). The Center was launched to help grow and strengthen the news industry in New Jersey using a unique, collaborative approach. The first initiative of the Center…

The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University has served as a central connection point, a hub, for New Jersey journalists for 10 years. And in nearly every one of those years, the top request for support we get from independent local news organizations is for advertising help. For…

Join us in person (or online!) May 19–20, 2022 — Selecting the location for the 2022 Collaborative Journalism Summit wasn’t difficult: Chicago had always been top of mind. Why? There is so much happening when it comes to collaborative journalism in the Midwest, most of it centered in the Windy City. You’ve got City Bureau, the country’s #1 example of…

Every year in December, I whine to my colleagues about how hard it is to select the best 10 journalism collaborations of the year. But every year it’s true, and getting even more so. (Just search for “collab” in the LION Publishers or INN lists of award finalists to get…

Especially over the last 10 years, a lot of people who spent decades working for news organizations have left their jobs. They’ve been bought out, retired or got tired of the turmoil in the media industry. Many of those people have a wealth of knowledge about all aspects of the…

Especially for those not-very-collaborative U.S. media outlets who grudgingly participated — I study collaborative journalism as part of my job, so watching a potentially groundbreaking collaborative spin up and sputter around over the last week has been fascinating. I’m talking, of course, about The Facebook Papers. (Or Facebook Files, if you prefer, Wall Street Journal fans.) The Facebook Papers started as…

A couple weeks ago, Mariela Santos Muniz and I published a list of about 40 news collaboratives in the U.S. that we identified as being permanent, stand-alone efforts or semi-permanent efforts attached to one partner. I received a question recently about that list: How are each of these organizations funded? …