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Building community by meeting information needs

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This presentation was created for the 2021 ALJA convention in Trenton, New Jersey on September 24. This is a presentation for the Association of Liberian Journalists in the Americas centering upon new strategies for community engagement with audiences. Here are links to the projects referred to in the video:

Community-Centered Journalism – Andrea Wenzel

NPR’s Hypothesis-Driven Design guide to immersive storytelling

Free Press’ tools for creating stronger connections between newsrooms and communities

Trenton Makes Music

Outlier Media

Conversations With Creatives: Neeha Curtis

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The television news business looks glamorous from the outside, but anyone who’s done the job knows that it’s a lot of hard work behind the scenes. TCNJ English department alumna Neeha Curtis knows. She’s worked in television news for the better part of 15 years – as an assistant producer, multimedia reporter, and as an anchor for both local and nationally syndicated news outlets. In this conversation, she traces her journey from her internships at NBC in New York, to stations in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Ohio. She also talks about her approach to covering such tough stories as the aftermath of a mass shooting, or the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic on vulnerable families. And she explains the choices that she felt compelled to make about how to present herself on camera as an Indian-American woman. You can clips of some of the stories that we discuss in this interview on her website: https://vimeopro.com/neehacurtis/neehacurtis This interview is part of the #ConversationsWithCreatives series.

Conversations with Creatives: Joe Hannan

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Joseph Hannan has parlayed his background in newspaper industry into a writing consultancy, Aligned Wellness Marketing. In this conversation, Joe talks about how his interest in journalism was ignited as an undergraduate at The College of New Jersey, his career with the Newark Star-Ledger and Advanced Media, his transition into marketing and public relations, and his decision to go into business for himself. He also turned the tables on me and asked some questions of his own, leading into a conversation about emerging business models for news, free speech debates how news organizations can rebuild trust with the communities they serve, and what we’re teaching students these days. This is part of a periodic series of conversations with media entrepreneurs denoted with the hashtag #Conversationswithcreatives.

Conversations with Creatives: Audrey Blumberg

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Audrey Blumberg is the owner and editor of The Breeze, which serves Bridgewater, New Jersey and co-owner and editor in chief of Tapinto Flemington-Raritan, a hyperlocal news service for Hunterdon County, NJ. She started with the goal of becoming a reporter and editor for entertainment magazines. So how did she end up becoming an editor and owner of two hyperlocal news properties? She shares her journey in this interview.

Conversations With Creatives is a periodic series of interviews with media professionals and entrepreneurs who have carved out interesting career paths.

Serving Diverse Audiences With Science Writing

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It was an honor to be a panelist for this November 17, 2020 conversation, sponsored by the DC chapter of the National Association of Science Writers and moderated by Emily Conover.

Here’s DCSWA’s description of the panel that accompanies the YouTube video:

Audiences for many forms of science communication skew predominantly white. This panel will discuss the origins of the lack of racial and ethnic diversity in audiences and strategies for how newsrooms and individual writers can work to remove barriers and better serve and engage communities of color. Panelists: Juliet M. Beverly, Content Manager at BrainFacts.org Mónica Feliú-Mójer, Director of Communications and Science Outreach for Ciencia Puerto Rico Kim Pearson, Associate Professor of Journalism at The College of New Jersey Andrea Wenzel, Assistant Professor of Journalism at Temple University Moderator: Emily Conover, Physics Reporter at Science News (Note: the gray panelist image indicates a co-host present to help with logistics.)

Resources shared by the panelists: