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Jorge Caraballo Cordovez

Jorge Caraballo Cordovez

·Sep 6

Journalism Rituals? A framework to build intentional communities.

Rituals have been the superglue of many cultures and can be a helpful referent for community-minded journalists. In this post, I think about rituals in a journalism context. Is there any need for them? Would they create value? What would a journalism ritual look like? There are also some ideas…

Engagement Journalism

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Journalism Rituals?
Journalism Rituals?
Engagement Journalism

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Andrew DeVigal

Andrew DeVigal

·Aug 31

Borderless Magazine, ProPubilca, OPB, NBC News are this year’s winners of the OJA Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism

The following are my revised remarks at ONA23’s Online Journalism Awards Ceremony and Banquet honoring the people, projects and processes of the OJA Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism. I also briefly talked about our Engaging Emergence pre-conference in my on-stage remarks. The Agora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon’s…

Engaged Journalism

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Borderless Magazine & ProPubilca are the 2023 Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism winners
Borderless Magazine & ProPubilca are the 2023 Gather Award in Community-Centered Journalism winners
Engaged Journalism

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Resolve Philly

Resolve Philly

·Aug 30

Resolve Philly Co-Founders Win Prestigious ONA 2023 Impact Award

Resolve Philly co-founders, Jean Friedman-Rudovsky and Cassie Haynes were recently recognized by the Online News Association with the 2023 Impact Award for their trailblazing work building Resolve Philly, a local newsroom designed for community impact. …

Online News Association

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Resolve Philly Co-Founders Win Prestigious ONA 2023 Impact Award
Resolve Philly Co-Founders Win Prestigious ONA 2023 Impact Award
Online News Association

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Bernardo H. Motta

Bernardo H. Motta

·Aug 3

Rethinking journalism education from the ground up

While planning Gather’s Lightning Chat of July 26, I kept trying to think what was missing in all the conversations we’ve been having about the future of journalism. Technology? Easy check. Civic media? Check. Anti-racism? Check. Depolarization? Check. Civic information systems? Check. Community building? Check. It was only watching the…

Journalism

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Rethinking journalism education from the ground up
Rethinking journalism education from the ground up
Journalism

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Eric Garcia McKinley

Eric Garcia McKinley

·Jun 23

A community experience: Findings from a survey of Gather members

Gather is a collaborative project led by the Agora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon with a focus on providing resources to encourage the integration of community engagement as a standard practice of journalism. Since 2017, Gather has engaged with its members through a newsletter, a hosted Slack community…

Community

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A community experience: Findings from a survey of Gather members
A community experience: Findings from a survey of Gather members
Community

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Erica Anderson

Erica Anderson

·Jun 1

Local News: helping our communities think more like neighbors and less like political adversaries

In April 2023, I had the immense pleasure of being Gather’s guest curator. I spent the month connecting more deeply with the Gather community via our vast Gather Slack channel. …

Local News

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Local News: helping our communities think more like neighbors and less like political adversaries
Local News: helping our communities think more like neighbors and less like political adversaries
Local News

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Andrea Wenzel

Andrea Wenzel

·Apr 7

Accountability Infrastructure for equitable journalism

More and more engaged journalism practitioners are attempting to connect conversations about community engagement with conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion. But for many working with news organizations, frustrations can arise when projects are not sustained in a way that can transform institutions and systems. Gather’s March 2023 lightning chat…

Engaged Journalism

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Accountability Infrastructure for equitable journalism
Accountability Infrastructure for equitable journalism
Engaged Journalism

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Sara Cooper

Sara Cooper

·Mar 9

Learn how to engage your readers as a resource

Best practices for producing reader-centered stories that build trust, drive engagement, and even counter polarization. — Engaged journalism goes beyond talking with your readers after a story is published — readers can be the story themselves. Your readers are a treasure trove of niche expertise, lived experiences and access to restricted or hard-to-reach parts of your community. …

Engaged Journalism

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Learn how to engage your readers as a resource
Learn how to engage your readers as a resource
Engaged Journalism

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Caroline Bauman

Caroline Bauman

·Feb 9

How to grow an audience and engagement team: From the ground up or within existing roles

At last fall’s Online News Association conference, we kept getting into side conversations centered around the same questions: How do new and growing news organizations build or grow an engagement/audience team well? As an individual, how do you build new skills even while staying in the same role? …

Journalism

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How to grow an audience and engagement team
How to grow an audience and engagement team
Journalism

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Todd Milbourn

Todd Milbourn

·Jan 18

Want to understand what your colleagues need to thrive? Try a user manual

When it comes to work preferences, we all have our own unique style. Some of us prefer Slack; some prefer Zoom. Some of us are most creative in the morning and others have caregiving responsibilities that require flexible scheduling. Whatever our preferences, it can often take co-workers months — even…

Teams And Teamwork

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Want to understand what your colleagues need to thrive? Try a user manual
Want to understand what your colleagues need to thrive? Try a user manual
Teams And Teamwork

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Andrew DeVigal

Andrew DeVigal

Husband, father, brother, son, bridge builder, strategist; endowed chair in Journalism Innovation & Civic Engagement, University of Oregon School of Journalism

Agora Journalism Center

Agora Journalism Center

The forum for the future of local news and civic health at @univ_of_oregon's @uosojc.

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