Posts in 'Community-Centered Journalism'

To address inequities in coverage of the Black community in South Jersey by supporting more Black media makers in the creation of news and information.

To expand and deepen WURD Radio's multimedia coverage and conversations around environmental racism and its direct impact on Philadelphia’s Black community with a lens towards action, solutions and empowerment.

To support the continued expansion of the Credible Messenger Reporting Project. This project trains, compensates and empowers people impacted by gun violence to produce and distribute news reports addressing its root causes, their lived experience, and possible solutions from the community perspective, with guidance from professional journalists.

To establish a better direct connection with students in Philadelphia through journalism, Chalkbeat will collaborate with the district-wide online student newspaper, the Bullhorn, and jumpstart a reporting series on how gun violence is impacting the city’s youth.

For continued support with strengthening the news ecosystem in Delaware and increasing voices and coverage of underrepresented communities, particularly BIPOC and low-income communities, by creating a pipeline of BIPOC journalists, identifying geographic and demographic news deserts, and building infrastructure to address news and information needs.

To support, mobilize, and amplify the voices of incarcerated people from the Philadelphia region and their families, and in so doing, advance decarceration.

To increase the visibility and understanding of the diverse Asian American communities in Philadelphia and their strengths, challenges and histories through a yearlong feature series of journalistic work about post-COVID reopening which would be sourced from grassroots networks and community leaders.

To continue and grow Germantown Info Hub for and with residents of this neighborhood. And to serve as the pilot for Resolve’s Community Wire Service (CWS)—a network of hyperlocal bureaus serving neighborhood information needs and as a mechanism for city-wide distributed authentic and accurate community-level coverage.

To support residents of Philadelphia's Hunting Park community, a predominantly Latinx and African American neighborhood with one of the city's highest poverty rates, by engaging additional community members as contributors and editors for Impacto's Spanish-language publication.

For the "Voces de Oro" reporting project, including Spanish-language podcasts, a graphic novel, and a "Know Your Rights" video series for Puerto Rican and Dominican communities being pushed out of Kensington, Norris Square, and North Philly by gentrification.