***Clinics are for
pre-registered clinic track participants only, except by permission of facilitators.***
Community engagement — that ongoing process of developing relationships, listening to constituents, and creating feedback loops so that journalism is relevant, reflective of, and accountable to diverse communities — it’s not easy work.
Identifying who to talk to and how, where to conduct targeted outreach, how to scaffold an engagement opportunity, all that and more can fall on those responsible for community engagement. So why not take a lesson from community organizers and share power with residents? Many hands make small work. By distributing the responsibilities of community engagement with community partners, journalists can not only build newsroom capacity, but also build community strength, leverage knowledge, expertise, and assets that exist in communities, and create the potential for greater impact.
This two-hour clinic will help newsrooms design and implement community engagement strategies to collaborate with community members.
