By Danielle Fox, Center for Health Journalism, August 8, 2019
Engaged journalism is the key to sustainability and gaining trust in our communities — it’s not feel-good journalism, it’s necessary journalism, Ashley Alvarado, director of community engagement at Southern California Public Radio (KPCC), recently told a room full of reporters at the 2019 National Fellowship.
Alvarado and ProPublica engagement editor and reporter Ariana Tobin relayed lessons from the field about how engagement helps you frame and source stories to center community needs and fill information gaps. They shared these tips about how to produce journalism that engages and gives back:
1) Start listening early. Become community literate.
“We talk so much about media literacy — how do we as journalists get community literate? I think a big part of it is just sitting down having conversations,” said Alvarado.
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