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This free hyperlocal news service supplements local news coverage by covering beats that do not overlap or compete with existing commercial news media.
In addition to neighborhood preparedness, this service provides regular reporting on: local non-profits; down-ballot elections; neighborhood meetings and meetings of neighborhood leaders; public comments offered at any meeting; local boards and commissions, including local school boards, the Human Rights Commission and its Poverty and Homelessness Work Group; fire, utility, and other special districts; labor and renter unions; watersheds; faith communities; active transportation, housing and homelessness; and climate change and economic refugees.
Our documentarians seek to share the latest public discourse with depth and context, summarizing a typical hour or 90-minute meeting in eight to ten minutes of audio. Repetition, filler words, non-significant pauses, expletives, and background sounds may be removed, incorrect pronunciations corrected, and sequences changed for that documentary.
Our approach has been characterized as community journalism, public journalism, civic journalism, citizen journalism, and solutions journalism. This project was honored to receive the Regional Edward R. Murrow award from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) for 2021-2022.
This hyperlocal neighborhood news service is one of four projects in the Whole Community Support program. The other three are: the Time Bank; the Exercise and Evaluation program; and the Incident Command System (ICS) For Neighbors.
Whole Community News is sponsored by the Corporation for Public Community Newspapers, and was established in October 2019 as a collaborative project with KEPW 97.3 FM Eugene’s Peace Works Radio, and local homeless advocates.
The CPCN board of directors selects special projects each year at its annual meeting. Past projects included the award-winning Montana weekly newspaper, the Clark Fork Chronicle, serving the frontier communities of western Missoula County and Mineral County, Montana.
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We are always looking for neighbors to serve as correspondents and share local news. Contact JohnQ@PublicNewspapers.org or phone (541) 632-3692.
