Case Studies CCN has compiled case studies and fact sheets on over 100 news-academic partnerships around the U.S. Recent Case Studies New Hampshire news collaborative fosters student journalism, makes an impact Expanding Opportunities ̽̽ Students Provide Critical Election Day Support Data Journalism Class at University of Houston Partners with Community Impact University of Oregon’s Catalyst Journalism Project Produces Solutions-Based Investigative Stories and Saves News Outlet More Case Studies New Hampshire news collaborative fosters student journalism, makes an impact The Granite State News Collaborative began in 2018 with a group of local journalists who, lamenting... Expanding Opportunities Ever wondered what it would be like to help produce a podcast or a live daily radio show? Through a... ̽̽ Students Provide Critical Election Day Support With the 2024 presidential election nearly upon us, the stakes have never been higher. And while... Data Journalism Class at University of Houston Partners with Community Impact There’s no shortage of news coverage in Houston. But, “what kind of sets Community Impact... University of Oregon’s Catalyst Journalism Project Produces Solutions-Based Investigative Stories and Saves News Outlet In the spring of 2023, Alexis Weisend published a series of investigative stories revealing how the... From Students to Reporters: Community Journalism at University of Texas at Austin Most of the students who start out in Kathleen McElroy’s 2-year-old reporting capstone course at... Students Collaborate on National Investigations at Northwestern University When Sela Breen read about Nelson Lee Graham, who died after a Georgia sheriff’s deputy tased... Bethel University Students Spin Yarns Off Campus and Abroad Ten years ago, Bethel University’s only journalism professor, Scott Winter, drove the student... University of Richmond Community Journalism Goes Abroad When Kelsey McCabe wrote about the latest charity events and traffic light repairs in South London... University of South Carolina Students Learn Investigative Journalism Riley Edenbeck, a recent graduate at the University of South Carolina, spent nearly three months of... Statewide Student Collaborative in Connecticut Forms to Offer Comprehensive Community Journalism The Connecticut Student Journalism Collaborative (CTSJC) has taken the idea of a news-academic... Stockton University Reshapes Atlantic City Narrative, Gets Students Jobs Samantha Hildebrandt turned the channel to Fox 5 New York in high school and marveled over the... CU-Citizen Access News Outlet Gets Students Their Clips, and the Community Their News If you pick up Brant Houston’s 2023 book, “Changing Models for Journalism,” you would read... Boston University Statehouse Program Provides Localized Coverage to Outlets Across the State When Jerry Berger covered the Massachusetts Statehouse for United Press International, he said they... ̽̽ Launches Nationwide Effort to Grow Local News Reporting at Colleges Across the U.S. The Center for Community News (CCN) at ̽̽ (̽̽) will dramatically expand... How Bucket List Community Cafe unites students, universities and community in Denver Despite the name, Bucket List Community Cafe in Denver does not serve coffee. Instead, it is an... Brandeis University Student Reporting Provides Community Information to Brookline and Waltham River Simard wrote an investigative piece on electronic Soofa signs in Brookline, Massachusetts,... University of Washington Journalism Program Places Students in Newsrooms in Olympia and Around the World Jadenne Radoc Cabahug had no idea that a story she wrote for University of Washington’s... UMass Dartmouth's Student Media Collaborative Creates Journalism Opportunities University of Massachusetts Dartmouth sold their radio station, WUMD, to Rhode Island Public Radio... University of Southern Mississippi to deploy students in 10-county region to confront 'intense news desert' Starting next fall, The University of Southern Mississippi will roll out an expansive community... Creating Real-World Journalism Experience in Southeast Missouri State University Emma Kratky did not realize the backlash that would ensue when she embarked on an exposé about the... Endicott College “Filling the Gap" in Local Media The walls of the journalism department corridor at Endicott College are strewn with newspaper... CUNY School Offers an Outlet for Students, and the City Jere Hester doesn’t think of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY as a school... University of Florida's Fresh Take Florida Launches Journalism Careers In southern Florida, the losing Democratic candidate of a special election for a U.S. House seat... Student-Driven Media is a Staple at Biola University Near Hollywood, California, there are many reporting operations working to cover local culture,... Gaylord News Brings Statewide and National Coverage to Oklahomans In December 2016, the last reporter covering Washington D.C. for Oklahoma retired — and with... Colorado Student News Service Brings Quality Reporting to Underserved Communities Beth Potter’s newsroom was struggling to keep up with the demands of a 24-hour news cycle with... Governors State University funds investigative partnership with a Center for Community News grant Governors State University's Center for Community Media added another local news partnership to... University of Minnesota Creates Opportunities for Students to Report on Campus and Beyond Opportunities abound for journalism students at the University of Minnesota (UMN), including a... Bloomfield’s Journalism Courses Create Hands-On Reporting Experience Trey Williams fondly remembers the feeling of seeing his first article published in January in the... Engaging Communities in the Political Process Through the University of Mississippi’s Democracy Dashboard Two years ago, Marquita Smith missed her chance to vote in a local election. For many, missing a... Sacred Heart Resurrects East Courier Newspaper In 2018, Hersom Acorn Newspapers sold off its 18 community publications in New England, most of... Deliberative Journalism at CSU Tri Duong did not expect to become a journalist when he first started college at Colorado State... University of Washington Journalism Program Places Students in Newsrooms in Olympia and Around the World Jadenne Radoc Cabahug had no idea that a story she wrote for University of Washington’s... Creating Journalism Opportunities in South Jersey Madison Miller, a junior at Rowan University, found her niche in business and sustainability... Iowa student newspaper acquires two local outlets The Daily Iowan, University of Iowa’s independent student newspaper, purchased two local... Michigan State University students report on politics with Capital News Service Danielle James —-who is currently a political correspondent for MIRS News based in Lansing... Cronkite News Students Are Arizona’s Political Source From Phoenix to Washington From the Arizona statehouse to the nation’s capital, Arizona State University students are... Drake University Develops Course to Fill Gap Created by Decline in Local Reporting Following a national trend, the number of reporters covering Iowa politics continues to decline,... University of South Carolina Students Dive into Investigative Journalism When South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson called for the criminalization of AI-generated... Students Report on South Florida Through the MediaLab@FAU A budding student-driven journalism initiative based at Florida Atlantic University, known as... ̽̽ Experts for Vermont Primaries and Town Meeting Day As Vermont prepares for Town Meeting Day, presidential primaries, and municipal elections on March... University of Vermont's Community News Service engages students from all fields The Community News Service (CNS) was founded in 2019 with the expressed intent to foster a thriving... Buffalo State University online news site fills void in community coverage With the shutdown of the local newspaper on the west side of Buffalo, Annemarie Franczyk saw a void... Fitchburg State University journalism program creating solutions to local news crisis When Wafa Unus was hired six years ago, she was the only journalism professor at Fitchburg State... Hyperlocal news in a Chicago neighborhood Some may think that AustinTalks covers the sprawling metropolis in Texas, but the news outlet... Abilene Christian University students fill news gaps and win awards In Abilene, Texas, the local Abilene Reporter-News is understaffed and overburdened, according to... Spanish-language reporting at Columbia College Chicago Columbia College Chicago offers something no other school in Illinois does: a 300-level journalism... New Hampshire students produce key public radio coverage During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when news reporters had to write about state... Elon News Network sends student journalists into their community At North Carolina’s Elon University, student journalists are covering more than just the... Students learn critical reporting skills at Delta Digital When Delta Digital at Arkansas State University came into being in 2016, its purpose was to create... The Eudora Times at the University of Kansas When University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications... Students Expand Texas Community Health News At Texas State University, the Translational Health Research Center has received more than $1... Deliberative Journalism at Colorado State University Jenny Fischer defines "deliberative journalism" as stories that foster conversation about shared... Students working with local newsrooms at the University of Wyoming Former Wyoming Public Radio intern Ivy Engel now works full-time for the public media... Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University Boston Globe readers were probably jarred when they saw the data revealed in a piece published two... El Don at Santa Ana College For the community of Santa Ana, California, there is a lighthouse of information at Santa Ana... Local News Collaborations at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute In the media epicenter that is New York City, it might seem that every bit of news is being covered... Media innovation and local support at Point Park University Point Park University’s Center for Media Innovation, started in 2016, is the hub of a number of... Borderzine at the University of Texas El Paso Along the U.S.-Mexico border of western Texas, residents regularly cross back and forth, shopping,... Hawk News Service at Montclair State University Carla Baranauckas spent the first four weeks of her Hawk News Service course at Montclair State... Students in the field at Murray State University On December 10, 2021, an EF-4 tornado struck western Kentucky. The town of Mayfield was hit... Students publish content through Florida media network The Miami Herald’s Wish Book series calls attention to Floridians in need every winter holiday... Alabama students gain hands-on experience at media center Chandra Clark remembers a "serious situation where a man had taken people hostage" at Alabama... El Inde at the University of Arizona The University of Arizona has a long history of providing community news. Nearly 50 years ago,... FAMU's Capital Bureau Class Early this year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis muscled out the leadership of New College, a... Tarleton University's Texan News Service “Why should we care about community journalism? Because all journalism is community... NKU partners with a community news organization Some student media advisors and student editors are building partnerships with local media... Bilingual student journalism serves community in Nevada In 2015, the Online News Association awarded just 11 grants for Innovation in Journalism Education,... Local News Sustainability at Colorado College Colorado College has a satellite campus in Crestone, Colo., about a three-hour drive from its main... Student reporting highlights religion and sports in Charlotte, North Carolina In 2021, then 12-year-old Mohsin Siddiqui in Charlotte, North Carolina completed memorizing the... Student Voices at the University of Minnesota-Duluth At the University of Minnesota-Duluth, journalism students are learning many approaches to... NSULA Students Support Local Broadcast Coverage In rural communities like Natchitoches, Louisiana, the local holiday parade or high school football... Annenberg Media Center at USC In 2016, a group of Latino students at the University of Southern California came to Professor... 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