What will it take to convince more newsrooms to take accessibility seriously? — 🎧 Listen to an audio version of this article. In the latest edition of her newsletter, Time Spent, Jihii Jolly asks us to consider the question, “How might we approach our news consumption from a place of not-knowing?” Jolly frequently argues that we should think of journalism as a practice…

Inclusive vision and strategy are owed the time — The next stage of diversity, equity and inclusion in media is here. It relies on creating belonging for current and future journalists and leaders. Media is in an exciting moment. DEI is part of our daily conversations. Better representing new demographics is recognized as a means to stay relevant to…

Gather. Organize. Mobilize. In a conversation introduced to the Gather community, the following question was posed: If given the opportunity to craft the reality you’d like to see, how would you shape this world? Who and what are the things that would be present in this new world we will construct? We do…

By Max Resnik Communities of practice were common as far back as ancient times. In classical Greece, for instance, “corporations” of metalworkers, potters, masons, and other craftsmen had both a social purpose (members worshiped the same deities and celebrated holidays together) and a business function (members trained apprentices and spread…

El Tímpano and an Anchorage Daily News/ProPublica collaboration take top honors in the 2021 Gather Award in Engaged Journalism — For the 3rd year running, the Agora Journalism Center is, once again, honored to sponsor this year’s OJA/Gather Award in Engaged Journalism. Winners of the 2021 Online Journalism Awards were announced last Friday at ONA Insights in Philadelphia. …

Journalism organizations across the country are placing a renewed emphasis on community-centered journalism, and we’ve seen how that approach can increase public participation, help build trust and even lead to more community dialogue. But what does it look like when community engagement and relationship-building aren’t incorporated into an already-existing model…

Around the U.S., news organizations have been reckoning with the structural, systemic racism that undergirds their newsrooms and the larger industry. At the same time, a number of scholars have been researching how racism and whiteness influence the field’s norms and practices. …

How do we reconcile the potential tensions between traditional journalistic values (think: enhancing public knowledge) and emerging ones, such as building lasting, trustful relationships with the communities we serve? When journalism is centered around the needs of a community it has the capacity to create more equitable distributions of power…

We’re excited to share a new batch of Gather case studies! Every case study is a deeper dive into what worked and lessons learned from community-centered journalism projects. This batch shares how organizations built relationships, offered actionable news, investigated issues, or created conversation spaces. Check them out below! Building relationships …