Get answers to your questions on newsroom-creator partnerships, including how to find potential partners, upholding your journalistic ethics, and how much time and money these collaborations require.
This framework from the Journalism + Design Lab outlines the roles anyone can play to help keep their community informed.
Here are 5 ideas to steal and adapt: From collaborating with creators to revenue experiments you can adapt in your organization, these articles and case studies are the most-viewed in 2025 on BetterNews.org.
Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: Work with local schools to help students develop journalistic skills.
THE CITY worked with a trusted messenger to create a video series that helped New Yorkers better understand the issues so they felt motivated to cast their ballot.
Public Source built a diverse, regionally representative map of Pittsburgh creators and trusted messengers to strengthen relationships and spark new opportunities for collaboration.
Factchequeado developed a course to train Latino influencers in the U.S. to recognize and counter Spanish-language dis- and misinformation and to communicate without spreading misinformation.
Adapt these ideas for hyper-local news participation from API’s Local News Summit on Civic Discourse Across Generations.
Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: Follow your audience personas to where they’re consuming content and engage with them there.