Podcasts about cooperative media

In this episode, we explore the potential of ChatGPT for local newsrooms with Joe Amditis, author of Beginner's Prompt Handbook: ChatGPT for Local News Publishers. Joe is the Assistant Director of Products and Events at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, an Adjunct Professor at the School of Communication and Media, and the producer and host of the WTF Just Happened Today podcast. Joe, a veteran of the NJ Army National Guard, was deployed to Iraq in 2008 and his unit was activated to help with Hurricane Irene relief efforts in 2011. He earned a BA in political science and criminal justice from Rutgers in 2013 and an MA in engaged journalism from the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2016. He was co-founder and director of operations of Muckgers, an award-winning, student-focused investigative news outlet, until 2014.Joe has also coordinated several collaborative reporting projects, including Democracy Day, a nationwide reporting collaborative involving 300+ newsrooms across the United States.We explore the exciting world of ChatGPT and its potential to revolutionize local journalism, discussing the transformative power of generative AI, ethical considerations, prompt engineering, and the future of local newsrooms in the age of AI. Joe can be reached at amditisj@montclair.edu and on Twitter at @jsamditis.Here's a list of helpful resources concerning today's episode:Beginner's Prompt Handbook: ChatGPT for Local News Publishers (Center for Cooperative Media) - Discover Joe's comprehensive guide to using ChatGPT in local newsrooms.Giant List of Useful Tools and Websites (Center for Cooperative Media) - A treasure trove of tools and resources for newsroom operations.Template: ChatGPT Usage and Newsroom Ethics Policy (Center for Cooperative Media) - This template facilitates transparency in newsrooms' ethics policies regarding the use and disclosure of generative AI.Trusting News Newsletter (Trusting News) - Stay informed about building trust in journalism with this insightful newsletter.Journalism AI Starter Pack (LSE) - Get started with AI in journalism with this comprehensive resource from the London School of Economics.Be a part of the conversation on AI in journalism! Send us your questions here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

September 15, 2022 was the first-ever "Democracy Day," a collaboration with newsrooms across the country in which journalists and opinion writers focused on the current threats facing American democracy. This effort was spearheaded by the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University in New Jersey. The podcast is joined Joe Amditis, the Center's Assistant Director, who describes the various steps needed to turn Democracy Day from an idea to reality, and what to expect from future Democracy Days.

The Peer Learning + Collaboration Fund in Newark is an opportunity for local reporters, media makers, organizations and city residents to apply with collaborative projects to meet information needs identified throughout the city. With the support of the Victoria Foundation and Nicolson Foundation, $45,000 is available for organizations to address information needs identified by Outlier Media . Local writer and Founding Partner of 3 rd Space, Kenneth Miles , is coordinating the Newark Fund and provides coaching to applicants on behalf of the Center for Cooperative Media . WBGO Community Engagement Reporter Brit Harley chats with Kenneth Miles about the results of the report and funding opportunities for collaborative projects to fill information gaps identified by Newark residents. The objective criteria of the grant application are weighted to favor projects that are led by people of color, organizations that directly serve people of color, those that self-identify as having a high

The Loved and Lost project is a statewide media collaborative that launched in June to name and celebrate the lives of very resident in New Jersey lost to COVID-19. It's being coordinated by the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University and was originally a project of NorthJersey.com. Betsy Abraham, The Project manager at Loved and Lost, and Stefanie Murray, the Director for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, joined WBGO News Director Doug Doyle to talk about the wall of names and stories. The coronavirus pandemic has killed nearly 16-thousand people in New Jersey. Betsy Abraham, says they now verified 700 COVID-19 victims in New Jeresey and added them to the wall of names on LovedandLostNJ.com. Abraham, who has received awards for her work on obituaries, says she's fascinated with this kind of work. She's proud to be involved with "Loved and Lost". "It's a very unique opportunity. A lot of times when I tell people that I kind of focused on obituaries,

In this episode, we focus on how journalists are meeting the challenges of reporting the coronavirus crisis. We talk to Nico Piro, a foreign correspondent for Italian TV station TG3, about how he is using mobile journalism skills — learned while reporting conflicts in Sierra Leone and Afghanistan, the ebola epidemic of 2015 and refugee crises in Greece and in France — to now report the impact of Covid-19 at home, in Rome. And Stefanie Murray, director of the Centre for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, tells us about some of the ways news organisations are collaborating together to help their audiences get the vital news and information they need... and to ensure that good and responsible journalism survives this crisis.

Collaborative journalism has become more of a trend in recent years. Newsrooms, struggling to remain ambitious as they cope with a sour media economy, are launching all manner of projects in which they're colleagues rather than competitors. The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University has tracked some 180 such projects in the last year. For this episode we focus on one collaborative series that investigated how some communities across Iowa have been left with scant if any options for child care. It involved four different newsrooms, including the Iowa Fall Times-Citizen and Editor Sara Konrad Baranowski. Please subscribe to this podcast, rate and review us, support us on the Anchor platform, and follow @JournalismHero on Twitter and Instagram. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/journalistsaremyheroes/support

Forum explores mediating role of news. Panelists include: Michael Hill: NJTV news anchor and correspondent Joseph Lichterman: Lenfest Institute for Journalism, Philadelphia Stefanie Murray: Director, Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University Paula Saha: Dir. of Communications, NJ State Bar Association

Join us for this special guest lecture by Project Facet founder Heather Bryant. Project Facet is an open source infrastructure project that supports newsroom collaboration with tools to manage the logistics of creating, editing and distributing collaborative content, managing projects, facilitating collaborative relationships and sharing the best practices of collaborative journalism. As a 2016-2017 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, she researched how to make collaboration easier and more effective for newsrooms. This year, she published the Collaborative Journalism Workbook and works with the Center for Cooperative Media to chronicle collaborative projects from around the world in the Collaborative Journalism Database. Her work includes managing the Collaborative Journalism Slack and doing trainings and workshops on effective, meaningful editorial collaboration. This is an audio recording of a lecture. To see the presentation slides from Heather's lecture, click here: https://uoregon-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/mlazaro_uoregon_edu/Ef2wQz4V5O5Bsij8x99b8AkBGGCs79cqEk1adVEJFeWZXQ?e=fBvlZy

Heather Bryant is the founder and director of Project Facet, an open source infrastructure project that supports newsroom collaboration with tools to manage the logistics of creating, editing and distributing collaborative content, managing projects, facilitating collaborative relationships and sharing the best practices of collaborative journalism. As a 2016-2017 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford, she researched how to make collaboration easier and more effective for newsrooms. This year, she published the Collaborative Journalism Workbook and works with the Center for Cooperative Media to chronicle collaborative projects from around the world in the Collaborative Journalism Database. Her work includes managing the Collaborative Journalism Slack and doing trainings and workshops on effective, meaningful editorial collaboration. This conversation includes case studies, such as Broken Philly (https://brokeinphilly.org) and the Solutions Journalism Network project Mountain West News (https://thewholestory.solutionsjournalism.org/networking-solutions-journalism-and-solutions-bda469c824c3), ingredients for collaboration success, and challenges that the industry needs to address in terms of collaboration, reaching underserved communities and valuing journalism outside of major markets. Read the transcript for this episode: https://www.scribd.com/document/463718032/Demystifying-Media-17-Why-The-Future-of-Journalism-is-Collaborative-with-Heather-Bryant

Eric Umansky, deputy managing editor of ProPublica and the man behind a series of 15 tweets to Press Secretary Sean Spicer Monday evening, joins guest host Joe Amditis of the Center for Cooperative Media to talk about how professionals journalist go about fact-checking statements and other information especially as it trickles down via official channels of information. Yesterday, ProPublica reported on a change to President Trump's trust that allows him to pull money from his businesses whenever he wants, without publicly disclosing the transaction. Since then, Press Secretary Sean Spicer went on the defensive, and said he was not aware of any changes to the document and just because "a left-wing blog" reported it, doesn't mean it actually happened. ProPublica responded with a series of 15 tweets linking to the actual clause that was changed and providing evidence that ProPublica has a history of holding all those in power accountable. Engineer: Avery Federico Producer: Katie Leonard Executive Producer: Anabella Poland