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Local news ecosystem mapping: Using databases to build a comprehensive list of local news producers

Local news ecosystem mapping: Using databases to build a comprehensive list of local news producers

With the health of local journalism becoming more salient, more and more researchers and scholars have turned to studying local news…

Mar 20

Meet the first round of 2019 diversity, equity, and inclusion grantees

Meet the first round of 2019 diversity, equity, and inclusion grantees

We expect to announce another round of grantees in the coming months.

Mar 18

New Knight Commission report highlights the critical role collaborative journalism needs to play…

New Knight Commission report highlights the critical role collabora...

That’s a good thing. But getting there won’t be easy.

Stefanie Murray

Mar 13

BBC, City Bureau, Resolve Philly, Since Parkland, and more announced for 2019 Collaborative…

BBC, City Bureau, Resolve Philly, Since Parkland, and more announce...

We’ve got an amazing lineup coming together for the 2019 Collaborative Journalism Summit, and we hope you can join us!

Stefanie Murray

Feb 27

Center for Cooperative Media announces Peer Learning + Collaboration Fund

Center for Cooperative Media announces Peer Learning + Collaboratio...

Want to visit and learn from a journalism colleague doing important work that you want to emulate? Apply for a grant!

Stefanie Murray

Feb 13

Center for Cooperative Media announces winners of the 2019 NJ News Commons Excellence in Local…

Center for Cooperative Media announces winners of the 2019 NJ News ...

NJ News Commons members took home awards for collaboration, innovation, sustainability, campus media, investigative reporting, and more

Feb 9

Introducing the Audience Explorer dashboard for small publishers

Introducing the Audience Explorer dashboard for small publishers

10 reports to drive engaged readership

Feb 6

2019 Collaborative Journalism Summit set for May 16–17 in Philadelphia; save the date!

2019 Collaborative Journalism Summit set for May 16–17 in Philadelp...

We hope you’ll join us and other journalists, media executives, technologists and entrepreneurs from around the world for the 2019…

Stefanie Murray

Jan 15

Feeling the pinch, college media trade groups collaborate to improve and survive

Feeling the pinch, college media trade groups collaborate to improv...

Student editors attending the National College Media Convention held in Louisville, Kentucky, this past fall had something new on the…

Jan 14

Center for Cooperative Media announces next round of diversity, equity and inclusion grants

Center for Cooperative Media announces next round of diversity, equ...

Stipends will help NJ journalists attend events hosted by organizations working to improve diversity, equity and inclusion

Jan 7

A look at nine of the best collaborative journalism projects of 2018

A look at nine of the best collaborative journalism projects of 2018

It’s been an incredible year for seeing what can be accomplished by newsrooms working in partnership. Whether it’s covering far-reaching…

Dec 17, 2018

Now accepting submissions for the 2019 Excellence in Local News Awards

Now accepting submissions for the 2019 Excellence in Local News Awards

New campus watchdog award added; deadline for submissions is Jan. 11, 2019

Dec 12, 2018

Collaborative journalism database expands to include translations in Spanish, Portuguese

Collaborative journalism database expands to include translations i...

For the past year, the Center for Cooperative Media has been collecting every instance of collaboration in journalism that we can find…

Dec 6, 2018

WATCH: How a group of NJ reporters built a massive database of police use of force

WATCH: How a group of NJ reporters built a massive database of poli...

A closer look at NJ.com’s unprecedented police use of force database

Dec 5, 2018

Local news ecosystem mapping: Balancing depth vs. scale

Local news ecosystem mapping: Balancing depth vs. scale

Most research sacrifices one for the other — we’re testing a new methodology that (hopefully) does both

Dec 3, 2018

NJ News Commons partners team up with NJ Spotlight, Montclair State students for election night…

NJ News Commons partners team up with NJ Spotlight, Montclair State...

The News Lab at Montclair State University hosted a half-dozen media professionals and more than 100 students for collaborative reporting…

Nov 7, 2018

Join us when the polls close for our 2018 Election Night Open Newsroom

Join us when the polls close for our 2018 Election Night Open Newsroom

We’re less than a week away from the 2018 midterm elections and, to hear most people tell it, the stakes have never been higher. To mark…

Nov 1, 2018

How the BBC quietly built one of the world’s largest collaborative journalism efforts focused…

How the BBC quietly built one of the world’s largest collaborative ...

News publishers of all sizes are partnering to ‘save democracy’ at the local level; more than 35,000 stories have been published

Center for Cooperative Media

Oct 31, 2018

Partnership agreements, MOUs becoming more common for collaborative projects

Partnership agreements, MOUs becoming more common for collaborative...

Here are some examples for you to draw inspiration from

Stefanie Murray

Oct 22, 2018

Here’s how local news outlets can access quality national content at no cost

Here’s how local news outlets can access quality national content a...

To aid with distribution, some news organizations make their content available for republication — for free

Carla Baranauckas

Oct 17, 2018

Study: Successful online local news outlets often located in wealthy communities, and ads still…

Study: Successful online local news outlets often located in wealth...

New report from Center for Cooperative Media analyzed data from digital native news outlets

Center for Cooperative Media

Oct 11, 2018

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