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Four journalists experiment with kid-friendly podcast to inform under-12s about the news

Sophie Aristotelous

November 12, 2020 |

Journalism.co.uk |

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Response Location: United Kingdom

There isn’t a lot of media outlets providing age-appropriate news for children. So, four journalists came together to create “KidNuz,” a children’s news podcast. The show has garnered thousands of listeners. “Although KidNuz's listenership is mainly between the ages of eight and 12, children as young as five, and even adults, listen in.” The podcast provides children with news about “about politics, current events, or science, with inspiring humanity stories, for example, about people doing charitable work or helping animals.”

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City Limits made a voter guide for judicial elections — and readers loved it

Ben DeJarnette

November 12, 2020 |

Nieman Lab |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

City Limits, a nonprofit newsroom in New York City that specializes in longer-form journalism, created a judicial election voter guide that received nearly 81,000 page views, more than six times that of the site’s other top-performing posts. The company also partnered with Gotham Gazette and WNYC to create an interactive voter guide that gives users a breakdown of election races in their area. The collaboration filled an information void for readers, expanded City Limits’ reach, and allowed it to benefit from the resources of the larger organizations, such as a tech team to build a custom embeddable widget.

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How Tracking Can Improve Gender Representation in Sourcing from J-School to the Newsroom

Holly Cabrera Meriem Chiadmi Lucie Laumonier Martin Payette Amelie Daoust-Boisvert

October 30, 2020 |

J-Source |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Canada

Based on an approach that one participant termed “what gets measured gets done,” several Canadian media watchers and news organizations are prodding journalists to quote more women in news stories by auditing sources' genders in past stories. One Montreal Gazette reporter's tally of her newsroom's stories increased how many women were quoted in stories from 29% of stories to 42%. The Gender Gap Tracker tracked Canada's seven most influential news platforms, and saw an increase in the use of female sources in stories by 4% in less than two years, nearly as big a gain as in the previous 26 years.

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At Voters' Service

Shinhee Kang Ian Karbal Feven Merid

October 27, 2020 |

Columbia Journalism Review |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Ohio

Ohio media outlets have provided practical voter information to combat confusion. WOSU, the local NPR affiliate, created an online guide for mail-in voting, with deadlines prominently bolded and videos explaining how to request and fill out absentee ballots. They also ran six call-in shows to give listeners practical information about voting and an opportunity to hear from election administrators and voting-rights experts. The Columbus Dispatch and the Akron Beacon Journal, among others, have run voting “how-to” articles and created informational guides with candidate profiles and ballot explainers.

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How They Did It: Tracking Down a Rwandan Genocide Suspect

Marthe Rubió

October 27, 2020 |

Global Investigative Journalism Network |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: France, Orléans

Years after international authorities had stopped searching for a man suspected of being an architect of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, a freelance journalist spent eight months searching data and doing on the ground reporting to find the suspect in central France. A story on the find by journalist Théo Englebert led Rwanda to issue an arrest warrant and a French prosecutor to open a counterterrorism investigation. Englebert's sleuthing provides a tutorial on "finding someone who wants to disappear."

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'It's on the writers': How The Correspondent drives interaction between members and its journalists

Lucinda Southern

October 14, 2020 |

Digiday |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

To entice paying subscribers to its ad-free news site, and to spark informed discourse in its comments section, The Correspondent promotes an unusual degree of interaction between its journalists and readers and actively seeds discussions with experts’ comments. Unlike often-toxic discussion forums on other news sites, The Correspondents' forums foster collaborations between writers and readers on prospective articles and in analyses after publication. While it's too soon to tell if the strategy will retain and expand subscriber rolls, the forums show an unusual level of quality and civility.

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In Rio, Mapping Gunshots Can Backfire

Raphael Tsavkko Garcia

September 29, 2020 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

Crime-tracking mobile apps give millions of Brazilians crowdsourced data on urban violence, alerting people to dangerous places and filling gaps in government data on shootings, robberies, and other risks. But apps such as Fogo Cruzado (“Crossfire”) and Onde Tem Tiroteio (“Where There's a Shooting”) offer statistically crude glimpses of crime, distorted by media and racial biases that one expert blames for myths about the risks people actually face.

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Community Journalism: A Troubled Industry

Susan Geier

September 18, 2020 |

Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

Local newspapers that have weathered the past decade of decline in the journalism industry have needed to innovate and pivot their strategy to stay afloat in the wake of the pandemic. With a worldwide economic slowdown and entire communities struggling to recover, local newspapers found that transparency was key in raising funds from subscribers. Diversifying revenue streams, embracing digital models, and raising money allowed these newspapers to continue providing local news and vital information regarding the pandemic.

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How They Did It: Collaborating Across a Continent on Latin America's Untold Migrant Stories

Mariana Limón

September 02, 2020 |

Global Investigative Journalism Network |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Colombia

A cross-border collaborative and investigative journalism effort brought 24 media organizations in 14 countries and more than 40 media professionals to report on the migrants from Asia and Africa who travel every year through Latin America to reach the United States and Canada. Although data was often hard to obtain, an award-winning migration reporter who was not part of the project said it "succeeded in humanizing the migrants, in part because of the multi-formatted way in which the stories were published."

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Minnesota COVID-19 outreach focuses on vulnerable communities of color

Joey Peters

September 02, 2020 |

Sahan Journal |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Minnesota

To extend aid to the Minnesotans most vulnerable to the coronavirus, state and local health departments, backed by $4 million in state funding and by community groups' on-the-ground help, conducted an extensive campaign of culturally appropriate outreach to offer free COVID-19 tests and healthcare advice. The efforts have included one-on-one contacts, email blasts to free-school-lunch recipients, and TV and radio ads on media targeting Black, Latinx, immigrant, and refugee populations. Immigrant communities and people of color have been disproportionately hit by the pandemic.

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