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Chilling and Listening
Mariah Castañeda is the Co-founder and Audience Director for the civic media outlet Los Angeles Public Press. As a new community led shop, they wanted to make sure they started building their news...
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Engaging and Emerging Civic Media
The Listening Post Collective co-sponsored the recent Engaging Emergence civic media conference in Philadelphia. Seven LPC partners and a host of collaborators joined more than a 100 other journalism...
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Mapping Info Needs in Tribal Communities
It’s hard to get more remote than the White Earth tribal reservation up near the Minnesota, Canadian border and the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. With these kinds of geographic isolations...
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Creating Trust and Engagement in Trenton’s Black Community via Civic Media
One of our newest Listening Post Collective members, reporter Kenny Miles, has been deep in the weeds of listening to his Trenton, New Jersey community as he tries to meet growing local information...
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Funding Democracy (via Equitable Media)
The Listening Post Collective has been fortunate enough to receive funding from Democracy Fund’s Public Square Program the past few years, which means we’ve been particularly lucky to have DFs...
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Teamwork Makes The Dream Work
Listening Post Collective Partners meet with LPC Senior Business Strategist Silvia Rivera (far left) at a conference in Austin, TX This month we say goodbye to an amazing colleague and friend, Silvia...
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2023 Reflections from the Collective
It wouldn’t be the end of year without sharing some highlights and headlines. In this newsletter we’ve got some end of year reflections from places as diverse as Kyiv and Trenton, New Jersey. We asked...
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“Divest from the ‘news desert’ framework — grow information gardens”
Anthony Victoria teaches a Media Literacy class in the Inland Empire of California This is an essay we shared with the digital site the Objective, as part of their Civic Media Series, on divesting...
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Info Futurist
As part of our goal to look at what’s happening in the journalism sphere from a more equitable lens, we invited journalism student and working reporter at community outlet Boyle Heights Beat, Carmen...
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The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News
The Listening Post Collective recently caught up with Andrea Wenzel, the author of the new book, Antiracist Journalism: The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News. Wenzel is a Professor at Temple...
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Serve your community before you worry about tax status
Anika Anand just stepped down after five years from her post as Deputy Director of LION Publishers, a membership organization that helps more than 500 local news entrepreneurs build and maintain...
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Memorial Day
Cassidy La Bouff with her father, U.S. Army Maj. Douglas A. La Bouff and brother. As part of observing Memorial Day this year, we are teaming up with our long-time collaborators at the award winning...
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How-To: Partner, Collaborate and Coordinate with the Listening Post Collective
Partner with the Listening Post Collective to create a more navigable and effective support ecosystem for civic media providers Since launching the Listening Post Collective in 2013, we have developed...
View ArticleListening Post Collective Secures $3 Million Grant from MacArthur Foundation...
The Listening Post Collective (LPC) is proud to announce a $3 million grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. This significant investment will enhance LPC’s Civic Media Playbook...
View ArticleThe Listening Post Collective Year in Review 2024
Check out our 2024 Year in Review to explore the key milestones and achievements of our Collective efforts last year. Dive in below! The post The Listening Post Collective Year in Review 2024 first...
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