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BBC’s local democracy reporting collaborative a ‘moral good’ May 20, 2019
The power of journalism collaboration is also the power of inclusion — here’s how to harness it May 20, 2019
‘Time, money, and pain’ make collaborative projects work May 20, 2019
Photos from the 2019 Collaborative Journalism Summit in Philadelphia May 20, 2019
Reporters from 14 newsrooms across the Midwest are teaming up with InsideClimate News to explore local solutions to climate change May 20, 2019
VIDEO: The state of collaborative journalism in 2019 May 15, 2019
A new effort boosts a diminished Illinois statehouse press May 15, 2019
Stories of Atlantic City publishes with tales of success, overcoming hardship and resilience May 14, 2019
North Carolina’s last two family-owned daily newspapers form a joint media company May 13, 2019
Journalists in British Columbia are working together to improve child-welfare reporting May 9, 2019
This New Jersey project shows the power of collaboration — even at the student level May 6, 2019
Spotlight: Child Welfare is a collaborative journalism project that aims to deepen and improve reporting on British Columbia’s child-welfare system May 3, 2019
WNYC teamed up with ProPublica to investigate how a powerful New Jersey political boss influenced legislation and reaped the rewards May 3, 2019
These Chicago news orgs worked together to create a collaborative voting guide May 2, 2019
Report: Case studies in collaborative local journalism May 2, 2019
The Cities Project: 8 newsrooms team up to explore the challenges and solutions facing Connecticut’s cities March 29, 2019
How collaborative journalism increases accountability, accuracy and transparency March 29, 2019
Solution Set: How high schoolers are collaborating with a public radio station March 28, 2019
Stories of Atlantic City launches, pairing community members with media in a unique new collaborative March 28, 2019
California newsrooms team up to handle police misconduct records dump March 27, 2019
Behind the scenes of Europe’s biggest fact-checking collaboration March 26, 2019
Collaborative Journalism Workbook is now available in French thanks to the hard work of Mégane Chatain March 22, 2019
Spotlight: Child Welfare aims to deepen and improve reporting on B.C.’s child‑welfare system through collaboration March 22, 2019
North Carolina media partnership focuses on sexual assault victims, inconsistent conviction rates March 22, 2019
19 fact-checkers are teaming up to fight misinformation about the EU elections March 21, 2019
The New York Times built a collaborative documentation site. Deploy your own with the push of a button. March 20, 2019
With vast records of police misconduct now public, California news outlets are collaborating instead of competing March 20, 2019
North Carolina newsrooms ramp up collaboration with big results March 20, 2019
More collaboration, better immigration reporting March 20, 2019
A coalition of 33 California news organizations will share police documents with each other and the public March 20, 2019
Seeking Conviction is a collaboration of 11 media partners from across North Carolina that examines sexual assault prosecutions and convictions March 18, 2019
How 6 newsrooms in Charlotte are trying to create a local news ecosystem March 14, 2019
Nine local partners in Charlotte form a new reporting collaborative March 14, 2019
New Knight Commission report highlights the critical role collaborative journalism needs to play in local news March 13, 2019
Reporters in Oregon, Pennsylvania, Florida, and now Illinois are banding together to share statehouse coverage March 13, 2019
BBC Local News Partnerships: How breaking out of the London bubble can strengthen the news agenda March 12, 2019
In a “many to many” world, stations are experimenting with collaborative journalism March 12, 2019
First Draft is hosting three identical ‘Collaboration Against Disinformation’ summits over the next few weeks March 4, 2019
As these newsrooms shrank, they started working together to uncover corruption March 1, 2019
Top French media companies team up for unified login system March 1, 2019
Duke and North Carolina are basketball rivals, but off the court their student newspapers collaborated on a fundraising challenge February 28, 2019
Want to start a collaborative journalism project? ProPublica is building tools to help. February 28, 2019
These Detroiters signed up for a free collaborative workshop to help investigate bulk buyers in the Wayne County tax auction February 27, 2019
How Your Voice Ohio worked with Youngstown’s WFMJ to highlight solutions in the opioid crisis February 22, 2019
Local TV is still the most trusted source of news. So how do you collaborate with a station? February 20, 2019
Center for Cooperative Media announces Peer Learning + Collaboration Fund February 13, 2019
Collaboration key among the new investments and partners announced for Colorado’s Local News Ecosystem February 4, 2019
The magazines publishing one another’s work January 31, 2019
Chequeado is teaming up with citizens and robots to expand the fact-checking universe January 31, 2019
Quid pro quo(te): The rise of partnership journalism January 30, 2019
9 Canadian outlets join forces to tackle journalism business model innovation January 28, 2019
2019 Collaborative Journalism Summit set for May 16-17 in Philadelphia; save the date! January 15, 2019
Inside the Hechinger Report’s partnership strategy: ‘It’s all about producing impact’ January 15, 2019
Feeling the pinch, college media trade groups collaborate to improve and survive January 14, 2019
The Intercept partners with B’Tselem and Forensic Architecture to investigate edited video of Israeli air strike that killed two Palestinian boys December 19, 2018
Forget competition: How two traditional competitors are working together to grow audience December 5, 2018
CrossCheck Nigeria launches to fight information disorder November 28, 2018
Global collaboration is a success story for journalism, whatever its impact November 28, 2018
Under the skin of ICIJ’s Implant Files November 27, 2018
The group behind the Panama Papers has a new investigation November 26, 2018
In an age of misinformation, sustainable newsroom collaborations should become a priority November 26, 2018
Is it finally time for media companies to adopt a common publishing platform? November 24, 2018
NJ News Commons partners team up with NJ Spotlight, Montclair State students for election night open newsroom November 7, 2018
Dozens of newsrooms join forces to help local high streets have a merry Christmas November 7, 2018
Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer team up to cover Catholic bishops and supposed reforms in sex-abuse scandal November 5, 2018
Democracy Now! and The Intercept team up for live election coverage November 2, 2018
Reveal and Texas Tribune team up for “the storm after the storm” November 1, 2018
How the BBC built one of the world’s largest collaborative journalism efforts focused entirely on local news October 31, 2018
WAMU receives CPD grant to partner with six public radio stations for ‘1A Across America’ collaboration October 25, 2018
Partnership agreements, MOUs becoming common for collaborative reporting projects October 22, 2018
How collaborative journalism won us a prize October 15, 2018
Investigation by NPR, Medill, and the Chicago Reporter finds prisons come down harder on women for low-level offenses October 15, 2018
Chasing leads and herding cats: How journalism’s latest job title — partner manager — works in ProPublica’s newsroom October 12, 2018
News nonprofits ❤ collaboration October 9, 2018
ProPublica partners with Mozilla to hold Facebook and political campaigns accountable October 8, 2018
Lenfest opens applications for $150K in Philly news ecosystem collaboration grants October 3, 2018
Two student newspapers are teaming up to cover college sports in New Jersey October 2, 2018
Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and The Caucus join forces to cover Harrisburg state capitol October 2, 2018
Case study: Quartz, Texas Observer team up to take on climate change in Texas October 1, 2018
Librarians and translators collaborated to provide proof of a Mexican journalist’s work September 26, 2018
In Oregon, three news organizations are teaming up to cover state government September 24, 2018
Four SEO questions to ask when co-publishing with another newsroom September 11, 2018
How Reddit and the Local Media Consortium became partners September 7, 2018
8 key lessons we learned from funding collaborative reporting projects September 5, 2018
Bureau Local model of collaborative UK-wide reporting to be replicated in Germany August 31, 2018
More than a hundred Swedish journalists will come together to design and implement a newsroom that will track misinformation August 30, 2018
Collaborations between journalists and academics can increase impact August 29, 2018
Working together 101: How academics and journalists can collaborate August 28, 2018
Five common ways that collaborative journalism projects get started August 27, 2018
Here is the Spanish-language version of Project Facet’s collaborative journalism notebook August 27, 2018
Beyond Borders: A New Zealand report on collaborative newsrooms of the future August 24, 2018
Quartz and the Texas Observer teamed up to explore how the fight for water can push nations apart—or bring them together August 24, 2018
What is collaborative journalism? August 24, 2018
Reveal will fuel local, collaborative investigative reporting by helping newsrooms get the awkward conversations out of the way August 22, 2018
Election projects around the world show the power — and necessity — of collaborative journalism August 14, 2018
Collaborative journalism project Comprova begins to publish in Brazil August 14, 2018
How not to be a parachute partner: ProPublica’s figured out how to collaborate with local newsrooms without bigfooting them August 14, 2018
Foundations are starting to collaborate to support journalism August 8, 2018
ProPublica to expand local reporting network to focus on state governments August 8, 2018
Revenue-sharing: A membership to Detour Detroit also supports Outlier Media, which serves low-income Detroiters with consumer finance information August 7, 2018
WhatsApp is a black box of viral misinformation — but in Brazil, 24 newsrooms are teaming up to fact-check it August 7, 2018
Reveal launches collaborative database platform for reporters and editors investigating drug and alcohol rehab programs August 2, 2018
NJ Pen and SNJ Today team up to get to the roots of ‘home rule’ politics in Camden County August 1, 2018
Journalists Collaborate in Oregon on Mountain of Data on High School Concussions July 31, 2018
New York Magazine teams up with The Marshall Project to examine how Trump’s war on immigrants is playing out in his hometown. July 27, 2018
News Counts is a collaborative project to protect the 2020 Census (and help journalists get the best stories out of it) July 25, 2018
Newsrooms come together to tackle packed news cycles July 24, 2018
The Collaborative Journalism Workbook from Project Facet is now available in Spanish July 23, 2018
For journalists interested in cross-border collaborations, Hostwriter offers opportunities and resources July 18, 2018
ProPublica and BuzzFeed News are teaming up to make political advertising more transparent July 18, 2018
Vermont Public Media Outlets Make Their Own News through Collaboration July 17, 2018
As local newsrooms shrink, college journalists fill in the gaps July 16, 2018
Journalists across Ohio are working together and collaborating with their communities July 12, 2018
Transnational journalism networks investigate Brazil’s largest corruption scandal July 10, 2018
How do you measure the impact of a story when it’s the result of a collaboration? July 5, 2018
News outlets join forces to track down children separated from their parents by the U.S. June 27, 2018
Case study: How journalists in Oregon are collaborating to tackle a mountain of data about high school concussions June 21, 2018
WhatsApp is a black box for fake news. Verificado 2018 is making real progress fixing that. June 1, 2018
How 90 outlets are working together to fight misinformation ahead of Mexico’s election May 31, 2018
Can hyperlocals and regional newsrooms work together? Why not try? May 30, 2018
Six small papers joined up to cover the opioid crisis in Long Island May 24, 2018
Here’s what you missed at the 2018 Collaborative Journalism Summit May 23, 2018
Mainstream media need to actively look for ways to partner with ethnic media May 23, 2018
Projects to fight disinformation in elections popping up all over the world May 23, 2018
15 News Outlets, One Topic: Philadelphia’s Reentry Project May 23, 2018
Summit brings journalists together to talk collaboration May 23, 2018
With 5 minutes on the clock, journalists share their collaborative experiences May 23, 2018
Video: The State of Collaboration in 2018 May 17, 2018
Get to know Broke in Philly: Collaborative Reporting on Economic Justice May 17, 2018
Webinar: How to Plan, Implement and Manage a Newsroom Collaboration May 17, 2018
Case study: How competing news outlets teamed up to investigate education in North Carolina May 17, 2018
5 cool things from the 2018 Collaborative Journalism Summit May 15, 2018
ProPublica, WMFE and Orlando Public Library team up to host forum on PTSD in first responders May 9, 2018
3 lessons we learned from Voting Block NJ May 8, 2018
How can mainstream and ethnic media team up to produce better journalism? Learn these lessons from facilitators May 4, 2018
Three South Florida editorial boards and WLRN join forces to cover sea-level rise May 4, 2018
2018 Online Journalism Awards introduce new Collaboration category, among other changes May 3, 2018
How did New Jersey become a state with 565 municipalities? April 30, 2018
Check out this Pinterest board of local news and collaborative journalism resources April 28, 2018
Broke in Philly invites panel of experts to inform collaborative reporting project April 27, 2018
Collaborative journalism: keys to success for transnational projects in Latin America April 25, 2018
CIR launches local news collaborations initiative in 4 cities April 25, 2018
New collaborative Resolve Philadelphia launches ‘Broke in Philly’ project April 19, 2018
New community collaboration aims to lift up voices of New Jersey working poor April 19, 2018
USA Today Network’s Pulitzer Prize for ‘The Wall’ marks another victory for collaborative journalism April 17, 2018
Five reasons to build on public media’s journalism collaborations April 16, 2018
Your Voice Ohio’s take on collaborative journalism starts with community events April 11, 2018
Free Press and coLAB Arts launch ’37 Voices’ collaboration to cover economic hardship in New Jersey April 10, 2018
Iowa high schoolers power statewide investigations April 4, 2018
Collaboration and the creation of a new journalism commons April 2, 2018
WAMU leads nine other public media stations in launch of ‘Guns & America’ reporting collaborative March 30, 2018
10 tips for collaborative data journalism projects by Mar Cabra March 27, 2018
An investigative journalist and a stand-up comic walk into a bar: The role of comedy in public engagement with environmental journalism March 23, 2018
Restart program gives some low-performing schools flexibility to help struggling students March 19, 2018
Social media and platform resources for small, independent and nonprofit newsrooms March 16, 2018
Facebook’s algorithm changes and how local news publishers can adjust their strategy March 15, 2018
Protected: Applying for verification on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for local news publishers March 15, 2018
Facebook Instant Articles, AMP and Apple News for local news publishers March 15, 2018
CrowdTangle for local news publishers March 15, 2018
Minnesota Public Radio reaches out in Somali, and community listens March 6, 2018
ProPublica is partnering with Univision Noticias to investigate ICE’s use of sensitive locations to detain immigrants March 1, 2018
Case study: How a Midwest collaboration helped uncover tax shortfalls in Kansas schools March 1, 2018
Announcing the inaugural ONA Journalism Mentorship Collaborative Fellows March 1, 2018
French media is in talks about collaborating on a unified login system February 28, 2018
The Times and Times-Picayune team up to cover Louisiana’s crises February 27, 2018
A testament to the value of collaboration in local accountability journalism February 23, 2018
How collaborative journalism sets newsrooms up for remote employees February 20, 2018
Can national and local media find a sustainable way to collaborate? February 12, 2018
You can now shape future cooperation between journalists and funders February 12, 2018
Nonprofit news site Charlottesville Tomorrow shares its reporting with the local newspaper. Here’s how they’ve made the partnership last. February 8, 2018
How to launch Voting Block for your 2018 state or local election February 7, 2018
WNYC and ProPublica team up for ‘Trump, Inc.,’ a podcast on the many mysteries of our president’s businesses February 7, 2018
NBCUniversal and BuzzFeed are teaming up for a new parenting channel called Playfull February 6, 2018
How a Collaborative Project Supports Reporting In Post-Maria Puerto Rico January 31, 2018
Case study: How USA Today Network’s collaborative journalism project ‘The Wall’ shined a light on border security January 31, 2018
NewsFrames is building tools and a community for collaborative media analysis January 25, 2018
Chicago Data Collaborative unites media, advocacy, and tech groups to investigate Chicago’s criminal justice system via cooperative data sharing January 23, 2018
A network of news outlets and data agencies wants to unlock untold data stories across Europe January 22, 2018
KUT 90.5 and five other newsrooms partner with Hearken to solicit questions about the 2018 Texas primary elections January 9, 2018
Database: Search, sort and learn about collaborative projects from around the world January 8, 2018
ICIJ, CPJ granted $1 million each at Golden Globes ceremony January 8, 2018
From microplastics to mega-stories: Journalism nonprofit Orb works the global-local angle January 7, 2018
Automated, live fact-checks during the State of the Union? The Tech & Check Cooperative’s first beta test hopes to pull it off January 5, 2018
How can local and national work together better when big news breaks? January 2, 2018
The quiet impact of the Paradise Papers collaboration December 22, 2017
Solutions Journalism Network brings collaboration to the Rural West December 22, 2017
A look at the top 6 journalism collaborations of 2017 December 18, 2017
Family Ties: What sister publications can teach us about collaborations between ethnic and mainstream media December 12, 2017
New reporter network aims to create a platform to investigate underreported stories December 12, 2017
Research on CrossCheck journalists and readers suggests positive impact for project December 11, 2017
ProPublica announces 7 newsrooms for its Local Reporting Network December 8, 2017
‘100 Days in Appalachia’ Nears One-Year Mark in Telling Untold Stories of Rural America December 8, 2017
Voting Block: Read the People’s Agenda we compiled and sent to Gov.-elect Murphy December 8, 2017
10 tips for successful collaboration among journalists December 8, 2017
A conversation with a collaboration entrepreneur: Heather Bryant December 5, 2017
Cranford Radio partners with TAPinto Cranford to create collaborative local news podcast December 1, 2017
How Voting Block used collaboration, potlucks to bring together newsrooms and communities December 1, 2017
Taking a cue from ProPublica, The Trace is partnering with local TV stations to report major gun stories November 29, 2017
Here are some tools and apps to make newsroom collaborations easier November 20, 2017
Research on CrossCheck journalists and readers suggests positive impact for collaborative project November 20, 2017
Voting Block: How we brought New Jersey neighbors together to talk politics November 9, 2017
EdNC, WRAL awarded $7,000 reporting grant in collaborative journalism open call November 9, 2017
NJ News Commons, NJ Spotlight election night ‘open newsroom’ grows, deepens partnership with Montclair State media November 9, 2017
ProPublica asked local newsrooms to pitch them on funding investigations. The response has been enormous. November 8, 2017
We’re building a database of journalism collaborations – and we need your help. November 7, 2017
LION17 Panel: Collaboration can be a win-win for news sites November 6, 2017
How this local news co-op gets its members interested: Getting them involved in the production of news November 6, 2017
Paradise Papers leak reveals secrets of the world elite’s hidden wealth November 5, 2017
Podcast: Melody Kramer reveals great potential for open data collaboration in newsrooms October 31, 2017
What types of projects suit collaboration? Here are 9 examples to get you started October 31, 2017
Block by block, New Jersey news organizations are hosting potlucks and telling voters’ stories October 31, 2017
A snap election (and global worries over fake news) spur fact-checking collaborations in Japan October 31, 2017
Can sports turn the local podcast business into a green monster? October 24, 2017
Community members, journalists meet to tackle opioid epidemic October 24, 2017
Renaissance Journalism tests new model of collaborative journalism October 24, 2017
These WNYC engineers brought 300 pounds of radio equipment from Alaska to help a Puerto Rico station October 23, 2017
ONA17: Designing a collaborative “disaster” newsroom in an hour October 19, 2017
ProPublica and Vox team up to explain how drug companies make you buy more medicine than you need October 18, 2017
Four newsrooms, 350 volunteers ready to engage Virginians on sea’s rise October 17, 2017
How USA TODAY NETWORK launched landmark report ‘The Wall’ October 12, 2017
Reddit’s unlikely first edit partner: Time magazine October 12, 2017
German newsrooms collaborated with Facebook to bring hidden Facebook ads out into the open October 12, 2017
With its new reporting network, ProPublica wants to fund investigative reporters around the U.S. October 12, 2017
Dawn of a new hope for journalism October 11, 2017
Building bridges across the editorial divide October 11, 2017
Center for Cooperative Media studies growth of collaborative journalism (translated into Portuguese) October 10, 2017
SunLight Project awarded for outstanding outreach, journalism October 10, 2017
Electionland wins ONA17 award in Planned News Event with Large Newsroom category October 9, 2017
How can collaborations between ethnic and mainstream outlets serve communities in the digital age? October 6, 2017
ProPublica launches new project to work with local newsrooms October 5, 2017
Learn more about this collaborative journalism portal in Brazil October 4, 2017
Three months after launching, Faktisk is already among the most popular sites in Norway October 3, 2017
This UK cooperative organization advocates and raises money for independent media October 3, 2017
Tip: Use these platforms to collaborate on stories and projects October 3, 2017
Arizona State University’s Cronkite School launches News Co/Lab October 3, 2017
Quartz and DocumentCloud are teaming up to release Quackbot, a Slack bot for journalists October 3, 2017
City Bureau and ProPublica Illinois partner on public meeting data October 2, 2017
Livestream: Comparing models of collaborative journalism + discussion panel October 1, 2017
Center for Cooperative Media identifies 6 models of collaborative journalism, a ‘revolution’ in media September 29, 2017
Report for America co-founders on ’emerging’ journalists, Google’s role and diversity September 28, 2017
“The Internet hates secrets”: Clear Health Costs works with newsrooms to bring healthcare costs out of hiding September 22, 2017
Report for America aims to get 1,000 journalists in local newsrooms in next 5 years September 18, 2017
Quartz is partnering with a local newspaper in Texas to investigate the effects of climate change September 18, 2017
Local publishers — want some data journalism content from the BBC? Local News Partnership applications open again September 14, 2017
City Bureau is bringing journalists and communities together to encourage civic participation September 12, 2017
New Mexico journalists talk cross-media collaboration, how to better inform communities, and accidental solutions journalism September 5, 2017
NPR taps Chapin to lead rollout of journalism network August 24, 2017
Go collaborate! Grant for energy & climate journalism beyond borders August 23, 2017
Pop-Up Newsroom aims to unlock best practices for collaboration between news organizations and technology companies August 14, 2017
$2M grant to help Middle Georgia journalists expand partnership July 25, 2017
Center for Cooperative Media to add 15 more news orgs to Voting Block, thanks to Dodge Foundation funding July 25, 2017
This tool is helping newsrooms collaborate on fact-checking and verification projects July 24, 2017
Exploring Collaborative Journalism June 9, 2017
A nonprofit newsroom rescued its local newspaper. Now it wants to expand. June 1, 2017
How nonprofit and commercial newsrooms can work together May 15, 2017
Culture, values and workflow are key pain points when it comes to collaborative reporting projects May 15, 2017
Cooperative news networks often form in response to events, out of necessity May 15, 2017
Electionland: How we set up a 600-strong newsgathering operation December 21, 2016
How Electionland, NYT Bots Engaged Audiences Around Voting December 5, 2016
NPR, stations see progress in collaborative news coverage July 6, 2016
Reflecting on the SF Homeless Project July 3, 2016
The future of journalism in three words: collaboration, collaboration, collaboration April 18, 2016