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An initiative of the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University

Stories show how students, parents across New Jersey without consistent access to Internet or tech…

Stories show how students, parents across New Jersey without consistent access to Internet or tech…

15 New Jersey news organizations received awards to write about the impact of, and solutions to, the digital divide in education

Stefanie Murray

May 4

Need a vaccine? These volunteers want to help

Need a vaccine? These volunteers want to help

Krystal Knapp has always tried to engage readers of her local news site, Planet Princeton. But she took that effort to new levels during…

Apr 22

Racial disparities in vaccination distribution the focus of recent fellowship for Black journalists

Racial disparities in vaccination distribution the focus of recent ...

African Americans are nearly three times more likely to die of COVID-19 than white people. Yet it is troubling that the vaccination rate…

Apr 13

Q&A: Cassie Haynes on what city governments can learn from collaborative journalism

Q&A: Cassie Haynes on what city governments can learn from collabor...

Cassie Haynes is the co-founder of Resolve Philly. In 2018, she joined Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, who was leading the collaborative reporting…

Apr 8

Income innovation: collaboratives get creative in the search for revenue

Income innovation: collaboratives get creative in the search for re...

Collaboratives are going beyond traditional models to raise money for their programs

Mar 25

Q&A: Jesse Hardman on why collaborating with community members is the future of local news

Q&A: Jesse Hardman on why collaborating with community members is t...

Jesse Hardman is a community media developer at Internews, a nonprofit that promotes quality journalism around the world. His work has…

Mar 10

Podcast series: 2021 State of the Media in New Jersey

Podcast series: 2021 State of the Media in New Jersey

Journalism at the national level has been under attack over the last four years, and the business model that once supported the industry…

Mar 9

Announcing the winners of the 2021 Excellence in Local News Awards

Announcing the winners of the 2021 Excellence in Local News Awards

The Center for Cooperative Media is thrilled to announce the winners of the fourth annual NJ News Commons Excellence in Local News Awards.

Mar 5

NJ Civic Information Consortium now accepting grant applications for first round of funding

NJ Civic Information Consortium now accepting grant applications fo...

The deadline to apply is March 31, 2021

Mar 3

To stay connected, collaborative journalism managers keep it simple

To stay connected, collaborative journalism managers keep it simple

Weekly Zoom meetings, newsletters and phone calls are just some of the ways collaboratives are keeping partners in the loop

Feb 26

What makes for robust local news provision?

What makes for robust local news provision?

The findings below are simplified for the purpose of clarity; please see the full paper for definitions and variable operationalization.

Feb 18

15 New Jersey news organizations awarded stipends to cover digital divide and solutions for…

15 New Jersey news organizations awarded stipends to cover digital ...

The awards are facilitated by the Center for Cooperative Media and funded by the New Jersey Children’s Foundation

Stefanie Murray

Feb 15

Loved and Lost project hits milestone, identifies 1,000 COVID-19 victims

Loved and Lost project hits milestone, identifies 1,000 COVID-19 vi...

The statewide collaborative in New Jersey is led by the Center for Cooperative Media and NorthJersey.com

Feb 15

Q&A: Liza Gross on the vital work of collaboratives during the pandemic

Q&A: Liza Gross on the vital work of collaboratives during the pand...

We caught up with Liza Gross to hear about how SJN collaboratives have been proving especially worthy throughout the pandemic.

Feb 10

Vaccine story translation project reaches marginalized communities about COVID-19 shots in NJ

Vaccine story translation project reaches marginalized communities ...

In partnership with NorthJersey.com, stories about vaccine distribution were translated into 9 languages and published in 12 outlets

Feb 4

New Jersey residents discuss policy priorities as part of Voting Block

New Jersey residents discuss policy priorities as part of Voting Block

Education and quality of life issues were top of mind during dialogue journalism initiative in Paterson, Newark, and Camden.

Manya Brachear Pashman

Jan 15

Reporting stipends now available to examine digital divide, solutions for New Jersey students

Reporting stipends now available to examine digital divide, solutio...

Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University will offer 15 awards of $1,500 each to local journalists

Stefanie Murray

Jan 7

Translation, support for ethnic media, training and legal resources highlight 2020 election support…

Translation, support for ethnic media, training and legal resources...

The 2020 U.S. elections came at a time of deep partisan divide amid a global pandemic and a painful national reckoning with racism.

Stefanie Murray

Jan 5

Submit your work for a New Jersey 2021 Excellence in Local News Awards

Submit your work for a New Jersey 2021 Excellence in Local News Awards

The deadline has been EXTENDED to Jan. 31, 2021!

Jan 4

Our picks for the top 10 collaborative journalism projects of 2020

Our picks for the top 10 collaborative journalism projects of 2020

We’re looking back at the most interesting, impactful projects of the last year

Dec 21, 2020

NJ-SPJ launches new program to issue press ID cards

NJ-SPJ launches new program to issue press ID cards

Program will allow a wide variety of media-makers to apply

Center for Cooperative Media

Dec 10, 2020

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