Assessing Newark's information needs and filling the gaps

In Newark, the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the fact that many people don't have access to the kind of information they need to live their daily lives.

There are many reasons for these information need gaps, including the fact that the news industry has contracted so much over the last decade.

Join Newark journalists, media makers, key community leaders and funders on Aug. 11 for a workshop to discuss information needs, Newark and how we can identify and fill gaps in the city by working collaboratively.

The workshop will include an interactive discussion about critical information needs and the information ecosystem in Newark, as well as an invitation to participate in a city-wide information needs assessment and a follow-up grant opportunity.

The post-workshop grant opportunity, made possible with support from The Nicholson Foundation and Victoria Foundation, will ONLY be open to workshop participants. More information will be shared during the workshop.

Stipends will be made available for those participants for whom attending the event creates an economic hardship.

This invite-only workshop is presented by the Peer Learning + Collaboration Fund, a project of the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University that is generously supported by Democracy Fund.

The event will be hosted via Zoom conference and facilitated in part by Fiona Morgan of Branchhead Consulting and Stefanie Murray of the Center for Cooperative Media. It will be conducted under Chatham House Rule.

Any questions, comments, suggestions? Let the Peer Fund organizers know: peerfund@collaborativejournalism.org.