The project "builds on the successful Community News model in Vermont, which brings students together with professional editors to provide news reporting at no cost to local news outlets," a university news release said. The center's mission "is to inspire and enable collaborations between local media outlets and students." to do that, it plans to:
- Building and maintain a comprehensive database of academic-news collaborations in the U.S. Academics, administrators and journalists who are involved in such programs are invited to fill out this form to be included and potentially get involved in future efforts.
- Give direct support to academic and news institutions, creating case studies and advisory materials for organizations that want to launch or expand news partnerships.
- Keep innovating the Community News model, exploring ways to grow it with new partners and a statewide content-sharing tool.
- Keep training citizen reporters in the ethics, mechanics, and skills of responsible local journalism. The Community News Service recently graduated its third class of citizen reporters, in partnership with the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications in New Hampshire.
- In coordination with the Knight Foundation, identify regions where it will focus its efforts.
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