Building Democracy Fellowship
The Building Democracy Fellowship is a nine-month program in which journalists from 15 newsrooms are building skills they need to adopt solutions-focused coverage of government.
The Building Democracy Fellowship is a nine-month program in which journalists from 15 newsrooms are building skills they need to adopt solutions-focused coverage of government.
In September 2024, 15 newsrooms took up the challenge of rethinking how and why they cover government and democracy, expanding the vital coverage of what’s going wrong with newsworthy stories highlighting efforts that are going right, and what communities can learn from them. Over nine months, participating newsrooms will learn the skills needed for solutions-focused government coverage, and put them into practice. Partners for this effort include Big Local News, the FrameWorks Institute and Partnership for Public Service.
Participating newsrooms are:
- Atlanta Civic Circle – Georgia
- Dallas Free Press – Texas
- Honolulu Civil Beat – Hawaii
- LINK nky – Kentucky
- Northwest Public Broadcasting – Washington
- Richland Source/Knox Pages – Ohio
- Texas Standard – Texas
- The Current – Georgia
- The Current – Louisiana
- The Haitian Times – New York and Ohio
- The Journal – Kansas
- The Philadelphia Citizen – Pennsylvania
- The Salt Lake Tribune – Utah
- WITF – Pennsylvania
- WUWM – Wisconsin
Stories from the program include:
- Kansas Sought Homelessness Success Stories. It Stumbled On a Cautionary Tale, Too. (The Journal)
- Where Art Thou, Rebuild? (The Philadelphia Citizen)
- How The Pandemic Shutdown Opened Up Public Access To The Legislature (Honolulu Civil Beat)
- Wisconsin Advocates Push Home Energy Efficiency Program Funded With Inflation Reduction Act Dollars (WUWM)
- Beyond the Chip: What can Mount Vernon learn from Sherwood’s growth strategy? (Richland Source)
- Community Connections: How Indianapolis Partnered Up When the Haitians Came (Haitian Times)
