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Enhancing Community Media

Linking students with an emerging community news exchange to produce high-quality, comprehensive reporting on key issues throughout Tompkins County.

As local news coverage is eroded by a shifting media landscape and many local issues are falling through the cracks, this project connects students interested in journalism with an emerging community news exchange to produce high-quality, comprehensive reporting on key issues throughout Tompkins County. The news exchange model allows local media organizations, led by the Cornell Daily Sun, to leverage their resources and collaborate on complex stories — such as housing, food security and sustainability — that affect the entire community. Students hone their journalism skills under the mentorship of Cornell alumni who are successful media professionals and university faculty who provide academic support. This model rebuilds the local news infrastructure so it may thrive in a leaner market, and the community gains rigorous journalistic coverage of issues that truly matter.

Grant type: Planning

Topics: Arts, Communication, Media and Design

The Team

  • Bruce Lewenstein, Department of Communication; Department of Science and Technology Studies

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; College of Arts and Sciences

  • Lauren Chambliss, Department of Communication

    College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

  • Garrick Blalock, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management

    SC Johnson College of Business

  • Community partner:  Cornell Daily Sun
  • Community partner:  The Ithaca Voice
  • Community partner:  Hot Potato Press
  • Community partner:  WVBR-FM
  • Community partner:  WRFI/Ithaca Community Radio
  • Community partner:  Cornell Entrepreneurship Hub (eHub)

Engaged Curriculum Grants

Funding teams that are integrating community-engaged learning into new and existing curricula.

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