Moving Forward — Advancing Community-Centered Journalism
Bringing it all together
This is the final extract from my September 2024 report on Advancing Community-Centered Journalism. Read Chapter 1 on the principles that underpin this practice here. In Chapter 2, I outline the challenges facing this practice and how to overcome them. Chapter 3 explores how to grow this sector and journalistic approach.
As we have seen, effectively implementing Community-Centered Journalism requires news organizations to prioritize building trust with communities, actively involving community members in the production of news, and ensuring representation and diversity in their staff and stories. News organizations also need to be transparent and accountable in their practices.
Without an infusion of these elements, the core goals and potential positive impacts of Community-Centered Journalism — namely to create journalism and information that is produced with and for communities, explicitly responding to their needs — are likely to go unmet. More widely, if we fail to adopt and further embed these journalistic practices, journalism will — all too often — continue to fall short of what it should do and what it must do.
Newsrooms should provide a platform for communities to help shape and create a more inclusive and diverse news…
