News Ambassadors

How does a community honor its past while making space to grow its future? A tight-knit campus balances the need for student housing with the importance of preserving local burial grounds for formerly enslaved people.

How does a community honor its past while making space to grow its future?
In our latest newsletter: student reporting on housing at a rural HBCU campus built on former slave plantation land, where a nearby burial ground houses many unmarked graves.
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Want to bring Depolarization Reporting Strategies training to your newsroom, classroom or fellowship in 2026?

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Thanks to the Scripps Howard Fund, some of our #NewsAmbassadors were able to get 1:1 mentorship this past semester from journalists nationwide. We are helping grow more inclusive and community-focused storytellers.

Who bears the cost when urban flooding is a yearly reality? The close-knit Illinois suburb of Berwyn has faced repeated flooding that overwhelms outdated infrastructure and lacks obvious unified solutions. Student journalists are reporting on what can be learn...

When flooding hits year after year, who pays the price? News Ambassador Britton Struthers-Lugo reports on urban flooding in Berwyn, Illinois. Check it out in this month's newsletter + tons of journalism resources: newsambassadors.beehiiv.com/p/who-bears-...

Intro to Solutions Journalism: Storytelling for Change | Solutions Journalism Network Impact.Edition is offering a solutions journalism training on June 19. While this session is great for journalists, it’s also tailored to communicators of all sorts.

Happening tomorrow and sure to be worth your time : www.solutionsjournalism.org/events/intro...

Who cares for gun violence survivors when the healthcare system fails them? Disabled survivors outnumber those killed by guns 2 to 1. So why are they often left out of the narrative?

When survivors of gun violence are discharged from the hospital, who helps them heal?
This month’s newsletter spotlights a story where community members are stepping in to support disabled survivors left behind by the healthcare system.
Read it here: newsambassadors.beehiiv.com/p/who-cares-...

A healthy local democracy thrives when people with different views work together to tackle shared challenges. We’re spotlighting “22 Questions to Complicate the Narrative" from the @soljourno.bsky.social to avoid simple pro/con binary reporting. Check it out here:
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Journalists! Two powerful trainings coming up:

May 27 @ 1PM EST
Convening Your Community w/ Hearken + Ken Schneck
Learn how to host fair community-led convos.

June 3 @ 3PM EST
Depolarization Reporting Strategies
Led by Dana Amihere, founder of AfroLA + NA mentor.

Links in our latest newsletter!

Who gets to tell the American story Journalism students help fill gaps in history that ripples into coverage today

Who gets to tell the American story? This month we are spotlighting student reporters from Montclair University who traveled to California to help fill gaps in historical coverage of Asian American immigration through Angel Island. newsambassadors.beehiiv.com/p/who-gets-t...

Civic culture: messaging & storytelling guidance ⋆ Citizen University Recommendations and resources to support your writing and reporting to tell more compelling "stories of us."

Attention fans of pluralistic democracy: Check out these strategies for journalists and storytellers to move beyond oversimplified, polarizing narratives to tell stronger stories of "we" with help from News Ambassadors, Citizen University, PACE and Cinereach.

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News Ambassadors enlists college journalism students to help local newsrooms fill gaps in coverage of underreported communities with rigorously reported stories that uplift solutions and common ground. Please subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop!

Journalists/Storytellers: Join us Monday to learn how "Complicating the Narratives" in our stories can help strengthen civic culture? It's part of a Citizen University workshop for journalists & storytellers.

Register HERE: lnkd.in/eQBsBhNZ

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