Building relationships with news partners

• Key Issues to Discuss Before you Embark on a News Partnership, American Press Institute
• Examples of partnership letter template/agreements by the Center for Cooperative Media
• CCN Brown Bag Discussion: “Collaborations with Public Media Organizations”

Starting your own news organization

• Institute for Nonprofit News Startup Guide
• Table Stakes
• Sembra Media (for Spanish-language projects)

Strategies for engagement with communities

• Engagement resources from American Amplified
• Hearken
• The Power of Community Listening by Adriana Lacy
• Reporting on communities that aren’t your own, Melissa DiPento
• Journalists, hold yourself accountable for earning the trust of BIPOC communities. This rubric will help., Joy Mayer of Trusting News
• What Can Journalists Learn from Community Organizers, Lenfest Institute
• Listening Events (public spaces, town halls, forums, etc.)
  • Example: Lunch & Listen
  • Example: Front Porch Sessions
  • Example: La Voz
• Strategic Listening Activities
  • Example: Listening Starter Pack for New Social Journalists
  • Example: Listening tours with Richland Source
  • Example: Audience research through newsletters
• Surveys
  • Example: How Surveys Helped 5 News Organizations
  • Example: The surveys of Santa Cruz Local

Orienting students to communities

• Let’s Gather In (guide to Journalists in Relationship with Communities)
  • Tours and visits — with leaders, school districts, officials, public institutions, etc.
  • Community audits — beat memos, research and observational templates
  • Social listening — through beats or key community conversations and leaders

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