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EVENT: REVIVING LOCAL JOURNALISM IN SOMERVILLE

Real News, Fake News, No News: Reviving Local Journalism in Somerville

Saturday, November 2, 12-2pm

ONCE Somerville

156 Highland Ave, Somerville, MA 02143

SAVE THE DATE for the follow-up event to February’s successful Somerville Community Summit! In that first meeting, over 130 Somerville residents representing over 20 civic organizations talked to 15 journalists about events and happenings that they felt weren’t getting enough coverage in area news outlets.

In July, the summit organizer Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism launched a new grassroots network, the Somerville News Garden with 25 volunteers from all walks of life. Its mandate? To help stop Somerville from becoming a news desert—a municipality without professionally-produced journalism. Three months of regular meetings later, we’re ready to get more people involved. 

In this second citywide event, Real News, Fake News, No News: Reviving Local Journalism in Somerville, news garden volunteers Lynne Doncaster and Prof. Gino Canella of Emerson College will give presentations on the challenges facing journalism from a local and national perspective. Then attendees will break into small groups to discuss “Headlines We’ve Never Seen” and think about ways to make sure that important news gets covered in Somerville going forward. At the conclusion of the discussion, attendees will be invited to be the first to take a survey on how residents get news about our city… and, of course, to join this new initiative and work with us to make sure that everyone in Somerville has the news they need to be informed participants in local affairs!

The event is free and open to the public. 

Please click to r.s.v.p. at our Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/548889818985859/.

Co-sponsored by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, DigBoston, and the Somerville Media Center.

Organizations interested in co-sponsoring the event, please contact Jason Pramas at jason@binjonline.org.

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Thanks for reading and please consider this:

The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism produces bold independent journalism for Greater Boston and beyond.

Since 2015, BINJ has been producing hard-hitting news and analysis focusing on housing, criminal justice, the environment, government malfeasance, corporate corruption—and shedding light wherever it’s needed. We work with some of the most experienced reporters in Greater Boston, and we also train dozens of emerging journalists each year to help them learn critical skills while providing quality reporting to our audience.

BINJ not only produces important stories; we also share our work for free with other community news outlets around Massachusetts, while organizing and leading at the regional and national levels of the nonprofit news industry. We collaborate with other community publications and engage the public in civic educational initiatives.

If you appreciate the work we are doing, please help us continue by making a tax-deductible donation today! With your support, BINJ can continue to provide more high-quality local journalism for years to come.
Support Local News Now

Or you can send us a check at the following address:

Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism

519 Somerville Ave #206

Somerville, MA 02143

Want to make a stock or in-kind donation to BINJ? Drop us an email at info@binjonline.org and we can make that happen!

Thanks for reading and please consider this:

The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism produces bold independent journalism for Greater Boston and beyond.

Since 2015, BINJ has been producing hard-hitting news and analysis focusing on housing, criminal justice, the environment, government malfeasance, corporate corruption—and shedding light wherever it’s needed. We work with some of the most experienced reporters in Greater Boston, and we also train dozens of emerging journalists each year to help them learn critical skills while providing quality reporting to our audience.

BINJ not only produces important stories; we also share our work for free with other community news outlets around Massachusetts, while organizing and leading at the regional and national levels of the nonprofit news industry. We collaborate with other community publications and engage the public in civic educational initiatives.

If you appreciate the work we are doing, please help us continue by making a tax-deductible donation today! With your support, BINJ can continue to provide more high-quality local journalism for years to come.
Support Local News Now

Or you can send us a check at the following address:

Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism

519 Somerville Ave #206

Somerville, MA 02143

Want to make a stock or in-kind donation to BINJ? Drop us an email at info@binjonline.org and we can make that happen!

Or you can send us a check at the following address:

Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism

519 Somerville Ave #206

Somerville, MA 02143

Want to make a stock or in-kind donation to BINJ?
Drop us an email at info@binjonline.org and we can make that happen!

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