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Save the date: Announcing the 2021 Collaborative Journalism Summit!

It's official! We are so excited to announce that the Collaborative Journalism Summit will be heading to screens around the world May 19-21.

Registration will open in early February. The conference will be hosted in-place again, like we did in 2020, but this time for 3-4 hours each day on May 19, 20 and 21.

The virtual conference will feature informative panels, exciting lightning talks, and of course, a killer soundtrack. Have a session or speaker you'd like to see? Let us know here

🗳️ Votebeat expands through 2022

Votebeat is a fan favorite around here, which is why we're so excited it's sticking around. The pop-up newsroom created by Chalkbeat will be expanding its work through the 2022 midterms, continuing to cover election misinformation, voting access and local election integrity.

Jessica Huseman, formerly of ProPublica's Electionland, will take over as the project's editorial director.  Axios has more here

🏫 Lesson Plans, an INN collaboration, highlights the challenges faced by remote school districts

School districts were, and continue to be, completely upended by the coronavirus pandemic. Rural communities were amongst the hardest hit, with the pandemic making worse longstanding problems such as resource limitations, racial inequities and inadequate broadband coverage.

Seven newsrooms, all members of the Institute for Nonprofit News, took a closer look at how the pandemic changed the 2020-21 school year. This week the collaboration published the last part of the Lessons Plans: 24 stories that examine the challenges faced by families, districts and students as they adjust to new learning standards. The stories, which cover areas like Nevada, Wisconsin and Iowa, are free to republish with credit. 

Read the stories here

⭐ Word in Black gets permanent director and the Oklahoma Media Center hires new leader

The Local Media Association (LMA), which has put a focus on collaboration, announced two new hires in the last few weeks. 

Nick Charles is now the full-time as managing editor of Word in Black, a collaborative that includes 10 of the nation's leading Black publishers. He comes to the position after years writing, reporting and editing for local and national publications, including The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, AOL Black Voices and NBCNews.com. The new role will allow Charles to further build out Word in Black, drawing upon his expertise to guide newsletter strategy and growing a community contribution portal/membership model.

Also joining LMA is Rob Collins, who will take charge of the Oklahoma Media Center, a journalism collaborative of 20 statewide newsrooms that launched last year. Collins takes the role after a decades-long career helming newsrooms across his native Oklahoma, as well as serving as regional editor for CNHI, where he coordinated content for Oklahoma publications. The media veteran is also currently serving as the president-elect of the Freedom of Information Oklahoma Board of Directors and will take over as president next year. 

☑️ Are you collaborating? Let us know!

Are you working on an exciting new collaboration? Know of one that's not getting enough attention? Let us know! We're always looking for new collaborations to feature in our newsletter. Share the news by emailing project manager Betsy Abraham at abrahamb@montclair.edu.

📚 What we're reading:

  • Local Media Association, Crosstown and Facebook Journalism Project announce pilot project on data journalism (Local Media Association)
  • Collaborative reporting about access to sexual and reproductive health in Argentina during the pandemic (Los Derechos No Se Aíslan)
Mariela Santos-Muñiz
MARIELA SANTOS-MUÑIZ
Collaborative journalism newsletter curator
Mariela graduated from Boston University with an M.A. in International Relations and International Communications, in addition to a B.A. from the Universidad del Turabo in Humanities in Puerto Rico. She is completely bilingual in Spanish and English. Find her on Twitter at @mellamomariela.
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