From Newsroom to Network: Mapping the Community Roles That Fuel Local News

From Newsroom to Network: Mapping the Community Roles That Fuel Local News is an Audience Engagement professional development workshop on April 22, 2026, 2:00–3:00 PM EDT via Zoom (link in confirmation email). As newsrooms shrink and informal community channels grow, journalists and newsroom leaders will explore the Journalism + Design Lab’s “Community News Roles” framework—documenting, sensemaking, facilitating and navigating—and leave with a map of local individuals and organizations and tools to strengthen trust, resilience and democratic participation. Speaker Cole Goins, the Lab’s Managing Director, leads a national initiative enabling local media participation; a media consultant and facilitator, he has led strategic planning, trainings and events for Cityside, the American Press Institute, Poynter, USA TODAY Network, Free Press and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Jo… (source name truncated).

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