All Content by and about Alicia Bell

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Local Journalism

What Journalists Can Learn from Organizers: A Guide

July 26, 2018

After years of experimenting with how organizing can be used to promote, strengthen and shape local journalism, we developed a guide for newsrooms and reporters.
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Local Journalism

To Rebuild Trust, We Need to Change Journalistic Process

July 3, 2018

As journalism organizations reckon with audience distrust and failing business models, they continue to gravitate toward community engagement.
Explainer

Local Journalism

May 16: How N.C. Journalists Can Break New Ground

May 14, 2018

Thousands of North Carolina teachers are striking on May 16. This is an opportunity for journalists to tell stories that go beyond the day of action.
Story

Local Journalism

Community Voices: Patrice Funderburg

April 12, 2018

A community activist and advocate, Patrice heads a firm she founded that specializes in transformational change through education, exposure and engagement.
Story

Local Journalism

Changing the Dynamic Between Residents and Reporters

April 3, 2018

Relationships between communities and newsrooms can’t exist without honesty, accountability and some real reckoning around issues like consent.
Press Release

Local Journalism

You're Invited: Journalism and Media Justice in the South

March 16, 2018

Free Press will facilitate the “Journalism and Media Justice in the South” track at the Free Movement Conference.
Press Release

Local Journalism

ADVISORY: Charlotte Residents and Journalists to Gather for News Voices: North Carolina Forum on Aug. 26

August 21, 2017

CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA — Members of the media are encouraged to both participate in and report on the News Voices: North Carolina event on Sat., Aug. 26, at 1 p.m. in Charlotte.
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Local Journalism

New Project Aims to Connect Journalists with the Communities They Serve

May 11, 2017

The News Voices project, which existed in New Jersey for two years before launching last month in Charlotte and Durham, aims to connect journalists with residents of Charlotte's more marginalized communities and populations and help them build more in-depth relationships with the people they report on.
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Local Journalism

In North Carolina, These Two Women Are Bringing Journalists Closer to the Public

May 10, 2017

Two recent events kicked off News Voices: North Carolina, a new initiative from the advocacy group Free Press, which is aiming to foster collaborations and strengthen the bonds between journalists and the communities they cover.

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