Open call: South Jersey Community Reporters workshop series
The South Jersey Community Reporters workshop series was conceived in mid-2023 as a collaboration between the South Jersey Information Equity Project and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. The program builds upon the organizations’ successful work in the New Jersey local journalism space to launch a new training and workshop program specifically for aspiring Black community reporters in South Jersey. By fusing community journalism with public humanities practices and knowledge, the South Jersey Community Reporters workshops aim to create opportunities for residents of South Jersey to reshape how their communities produce, share, and engage with local news.The South Jersey Community Reporters workshop series will be targeted to Black communities in Camden, Burlington, Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland, and Atlantic counties from November 2023 through August 2024. SJIEP and NJCH will recruit a small intergenerational cohort of South Jersey Community Reporters to participate in expert-led journalism and media workshops and work alongside recent fellows from SJIEP’s existing journalism program. The Community Reporters cohort will learn from the SJIEP fellows’ efforts to produce solutions-based, restorative narrative journalism in their respective communities across the region. With funding support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, this inaugural cohort will explore how storytelling can combat rising hate-based violence across the Garden State. The workshop series will ground this trend in local historical and cultural contexts, while giving New Jerseyans the skills — including information literacy and journalism and multimedia story development training — to create positive community narratives. We hope that the workshops’ combination of journalism training and humanities education can help to amplify dialogue, resilience, and a sense of common purpose among BIPOC communities in South Jersey.
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