Collaborative journalism takes many forms: reporting, deepening relationships with audiences, co-collecting and sharing data or even teaming up to build technology. Learn the basics here.
The Miami Herald, Tampa Bay Times, South Florida Sun Sentinel, WLRN, Palm Beach Post and Orlando Sentinel are partnering to cover the environment.
The BBC is leading a collaborative effort in the U.K. to leverages existing resources, training and content among local and hyperlocal news organizations.
This case study offers insights on how three news organizations are collaborating in a joint bureau to cover state government in Oregon.
ProPublica collaborates with local newsrooms by giving them the right support and resources. See some examples of how they are successfully doing this.
This report identifies and compares the six most common models of collaborative journalism. It provides examples of each model, and discusses common costs and benefits for each.
Depending on the nature, size and topic of a collaboration, there can be very different resource and workflow requirements — and very different challenges and potential benefits.
Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: Your local news organization can build stronger communities and publish more diverse reporting through mutually beneficial local partnerships.
ProPublica is well known for collaborations, especially in projects dealing with a large volume of data. Use their guide to learn how your newsroom can work on projects like these too.
Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: The University of North Carolina and Duke University’s student newsrooms teamed up to create the Rivalry Challenge around the Duke-UNC men’s basketball game earlier this year. There were two big parts to the challenge — a fundraising competition and a joint editorial project in print and online between the two teams of student journalists.
Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: The Durango Herald partnered with several organizations to use a solutions journalism approach to covering youth suicide, a sensitive subject that the publication had received criticism for in past coverage. The approach won over the publication’s critics and improved the community conversation around the difficult topic. The paper funded its coverage through a grant from the Solutions Journalism Network.
Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: The Bay Area News Group and McClatchy’s Sacramento Bee, two Northern California news organizations, are sharing stories, photos and video. A conversation among top editors about how to best collaborate resulted in a content-sharing and co-reporting experiment.
10 questions to guide designing a collaborative project.
10 questions to guide managing a collaborative project.
10 questions to guide post-project (or regular) assessment of a collaborative project.
Tips for successful partnerships, plus an extensive look at the hurdles for local and national players and how to overcome them.
This case study was created to document the Electionland project and to provide a playbook for organizations looking to create collaborative reporting projects of their own.
Get ideas for journalism collaborations from past projects around the globe.
Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: The News Reporter, a local paper covering Whiteville and Columbus County, N.C., and Scalawag, a nonprofit magazine that serves under-represented Southerners, teamed up to produce a series (on the breakdown of mental health services and the opioid epidemic in rural North Carolina) that neither could have done as effectively on their own.