Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative
After fits and starts going back to the previous decade, are local and community news sites ready to get serious about collaboration to meet the demands of increasingly picky readers?
There have been several partnerships going back to the previous decade, like the seven-year-old, still-healthy alliance between the nonprofit Charlottesville Tomorrow and the older print-digital The Daily Progress (owned by Warren Buffet’s BH Media Group) that serves the demanding news consumers of that historic Virginia town But collaborations like there were more the exception than the rule.
But next week the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University in suburban North Jersey will launch a local/national news partnership project that will show community sites in Jersey how, for example, they can produce the same eye-catching data visualizations that are routinely published by national publications...