Why Do Community Engagement? A Reporter’s Perspective
I literally had no concept of what it meant to put the words “community” and “engagement” together in the same sentence with journalism. Now I see it as a process that can broaden the scope and...
View Article10 Strategies for Creating Powerful Conversations Via Public Media Events
There’s an alchemy when people get together face-to-face to ponder a tough issue and what to do about it. Good conversations are game changers. They help us connect with the topic, see issues in a new...
View ArticleBrand-O-Rama: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love Public Radio
I’ve always been a little put off by the marketing concept known as branding. To me it calls up images of cattle, slaves, and Nike swooshes. None of which I find appealing. But recently I...
View ArticleOur Theory of Change & How It Can Change Us
If you’re like me, the term “theory of change” makes you feel both thrill and dread. It’s exciting to conceive a model for making change. Who doesn’t want a framework that spells out how to move the...
View Article10 Steps To Creating and Assessing Community Engaged Reporting
I’m in grad school, half way to getting my MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts. I also have a full-time gig at Capital Public Radio, leading their community engagement initiative. Sure, it’s a lot to...
View ArticleBuilding Productive Partnerships for Community Engaged Journalism
As Capital Public Radio’s Senior Community Engagement Strategist, I get asked a lot about collaboration. Why collaborate? Who should we collaborate with? What does a good partnership look like? What’s...
View ArticleCreating Contact Zones
Community members share stories and solutions to hunger in Sacramento, California. Photo: Steve Fisch Civic aspiration is a powerful thing — it gives moral imagination someplace to go. — Krista...
View ArticleStory Circles: Contact Zones for Deep Listening
Participating in a Capital Public Radio Story Circle in August 2017, Harold Garcia describes how he survived on the streets. He now lives in an affordable housing community. Vanessa Nelson/Capital...
View ArticleHow ‘engaged’ radio journalism helped a community tackle suicide
Olivia Henry holds a microphone for Amador resident Ashley Moore, a key source in CapRadio’s reporting. Vanessa Nelson / Capital Public Radio Climbing the western slope of the central Sierra Nevada...
View ArticleWant to start evaluating your engaged reporting? Here’s what I did
I am on a mission: I want evaluation to be a newsroom norm, not something that would be nice to have. Weaving evaluation into my projects has been a game changer, giving me the data I need to...
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