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Bringing Open Space | Engagement with, in newsrooms

Leads: Ashley & Lori Facilitating engagement within newsrooms to support and model engagement outside. Tasks: + create slack channel + find Zoom channel + Share resources, research, and ID potential funding sources Who’s involved: Jackie Hai Bill Densmore Linda Miller … Continue reading

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Engaging rural communities and live streaming

Q1: How do you seek authentic ways for communities to connect in rural communities around the world?- Kathryn Langstaff Q2: How can live streaming be a simple and effective solution for effective civic engagement?- Marpessa Allen Title: Civic Engagement and … Continue reading

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Stories of What Is and Isn’t Working for Members of the Elevate Engagement Community

Leader: Keegan Clements-Housser Participants: Linda Ellinor Goal: Track and collate efforts by members of this community to implement community engagement techniques, so we as a community can assess what’s working, what’s not working, and why. I will gather info from … Continue reading

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ACTION COMMITMENTS: Seven projects

ACTION COMMITMENTS TO DO WITH GROUPS Seven people in total agree to do action follow-ups. Gather person: I commit to be a major convenor on Gather, working with other people Ashley: I would like to bring Open Space inside newsrooms … Continue reading

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CLOSING STATEMENTS: Participations in Elevate Engagement offer closing statements

CLOSING CIRCLE 46 people in the circle My hope is that we will evolve a method for keeping the space among use open in email, Gather, Slack, FB, phone or whatever. Don’t stop connecting; make the effort to tell the … Continue reading

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LINKS: To photos and audio from Elevate Engagement

View photos from Elevate Engagement at this link: Listen to MP3 audio files within this folder: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B87Bd6VlF6wbdFJuZG5vWDhkV3c Or here: http://newshare.com/jtm-pdx17

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Topic What would a publication that incorporated content…

Topic: What would a publication that incorporated content from both professional and citizen journalists look like? How would it function? Session Host: Keegan Clements-Housser 1) What’s the quest? To recognize that professional journalists no longer hold a monopoly on creating … Continue reading

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How do we help communities become active participants in the news, and establish a way to vet them so that any good work is legitimate in the eyes of editors/publishers/executives?

Session Hosts: Keegan Clements-Housser & Amber Rivera Participants Karen Alvarado Alex Powers Cameron Whitten Emily Olson Bill Densmore Matt Gatie Khari Johnson Shawn Poynter Linda Jue Lauren Pabst “Citizen journalism is here to stay; we can’t put that genie back … Continue reading

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Topic: What is the story of your father?

Host: Linda Miller, American Public Media Participants: Michelle Holmes Anthony Advincula Mike Green March Tisdale Simon Galperin Meredith Clark Karen Alvarado Kristin Gustaff Stephen Silha Karl Evesenbach Summer Fields Notes: We came. We listened. We shared. We cared.

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How can we use engagement and how are we using engagement methods to increase racial/ethnic diversity and diversity of viewpoints in the country’s journalism?

(Notes by Amy Wang; any errors/omissions are hers) (Ivan: I apologize, but I did not have time to summarize and organize these notes. Will do so after the conference as warranted.) Ivan Roman poses this question as as a journalist … Continue reading

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