Here, community journalism pioneers share their solutions, knowledge, tools, and infrastructure with each other
How newsrooms innovate putting their communities first
A few pioneers have shown what community journalism can look like. We gather portraits of local, community-centred media projects across Europe — how they were founded, how they finance themselves, how they engage their communities, and what makes them succeed.
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A Collection of Community Journalism Playbooks and Guides
We’re not the first to think about how to build community-centered newsrooms and involve people more deeply in your journalistic work. There’s a wealth of best-practice examples, guides, and ideas we can draw from. We want to collect the best of them here. Let us know if you have anything to add. Who or what…
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Reporting Close to the People: How Community-Centered Election Coverage Works
What guides your election coverage? Do you focus on the content of party platforms or on the positions of the candidates? Have you ever wondered whether these topics truly reflect what matters to the people in your city? With community-centered election coverage, you can reverse the usual approach: instead of starting with political actors, you…
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Listening first: Engaging Communities Through Surveys
In community journalism, continuous engagement with the community is at the core. This can take place through personal contact, joint projects, or events. In addition, surveys are a key tool for strengthening interaction and systematically involving people in the journalistic process – both those who are new to the community and those who already follow…
Community Journalism Case Studies
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Case Study: Slowing Down in Local Journalism
Bloq is a local magazine for the Mannheim, Heidelberg, and Ludwigshafen region. Bloq looks great, feels great, and delivers excellent local journalism. So far, two issues have been published. In our last beabee Lunchbreak in mid-October, the Bloq team joined us and explained why they approach local journalism the way they do. This newsletter edition…
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Case Study: Journalism at the Coffee Stand
Local journalism needs to be close to the people. Community-centered local journalism even more so. It’s no coincidence that RUMS in Münster has its newsroom in a shop in the city center, tsüri.ch ran a bar during the summer, and CORRECTIV set up a pop-up newsroom in Bottrop to investigate the local pharmacy scandal. CORRECTIV…
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Case Study: How Kohero Organizes a Community of Volunteers
Kohero produces journalism by and for people with refugee and migration backgrounds. Around 90 volunteer editorial members write about their own experiences. Founder and editor-in-chief Hussam Al Zaher explained the idea behind it and how Kohero organizes this work in one of the recent beabee Lunchbreaks. About Kohero: Let the Community Speak: Volunteers tell Their…