Today is #GivingTuesday and we know you're probably buried up to your eyes in fundraising emails, but there are only a handful of non-profit newsrooms in New Jersey and we wanted to make sure you know how important it is to support them as well.
Here's a list of them!
There's @aboutbloomfield in Essex County, a community news service dedicated to making Bloomfield more informed, engaged, and resilient.
There's @Chalkbeat in Newark, with its reporters working around the clock to answer urgent questions facing NJ educators, families, school boards, and residents.
There's @ClimateCentral in Princeton, which works to create and catalyze accurate, compelling, and ubiquitous communications about climate change impacts and solutions.
There's @delawarecurrent, which provides information to better connect people to the Delaware River and provide a platform for all kinds of different voices along the basin.
There's @FoodBankNews2 in Maplewood, which aims to generate more effective and lasting solutions to hunger by spotlighting best practices via a national news source.
There's @montclairlocal, born out of a belief that communities benefit from, need and deserve news coverage at a level no other organization is prepared to provide.
Of course, there's @NJSpotlightNews in Newark, which is dedicated to following the issues and providing information about what’s happening in Trenton, with a healthy dose of context and perspective.
There's @publicsq_news, a local newsroom founded by a team of Black women with over 40 years of combined experience in the nonprofit, journalism, and community organizing sectors.
Last but not least, there's @Shelterforce, the only independent, non-academic publication covering the worlds of community development, affordable housing, and neighborhood stabilization.
If you're still feeling generous after all that, you can head over to newsmatch.org/search and search through dozens and dozens of non-profit news and information providers who are more than worthy of your support for #GivingTuesday and #NewsMatch this year.
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Today we're announcing the NJ Media Mentors program, an idea from the mind of @gunnysvg to pair volunteers with local news leaders looking for mentorship.
Have insight to share? We want to connect you with people who need it the most!
Especially over the last 10 years, a lot of people who spent decades working for news organizations have left their jobs. They’ve been bought out, retired or got tired of the turmoil in the media industry.
Many of those people have a wealth of knowledge about all aspects of the business: Some worked as editors, some were talented reporters, others are incredible copy editors, advertising sales managers and more.
Fellows have been publishing stories over the last several months as part of #NJMediaCounts, a program managed by @10thprecinct, aimed at supporting ethnic and community news outlets in New Jersey covering the #2020Census in their communities.
(Almost all of these events are FREE, by the way. 🤗)
Aug. 13: Join @krystalknapp p of @PlanetPrinceton for a free @WordPress webinar on Gutenberg basics, which plugins to use to make your posts and pages stand out, and a discussion about the future of Gutenberg.
Aug. 22: Join us for an important workshop on how to report on the upcoming 2020 Census, tailored specifically for New Jersey media and individual journalists.