Past Opportunities

This fellowship for public media journalists will strengthen news leadership and ethical decision-making skills. Over nine months, participants will receive individual coaching, learn from industry experts, collaborate in small peer groups, and work on a personal project that will benefit their newsroom and their own leadership. This fellowship requires participation in twice-monthly online workshops, along […]

As part of a three-year immersive experience with initial funding of $3.2 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Local Media Association will select eight additional local media companies to participate in Cohort 3 of the lab, which will continue to focus on technology upgrades, business transformation and shared learning opportunities. Selected […]

Presented by Experts on Camera from SciLine: Electric bikes “E-bikes” are soaring in popularity, and many cities and states are offering rebates, tax credits, or other incentives to purchase them. Available Expert: Dr. Jennifer Dill is a professor of urban studies and planning and director of the Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State […]

SciLine has helped thousands of journalists add small but important doses of science to their local news stories. Now, they’re offering a FREE one-hour “crash course”—designed specifically for local and general assignment reporters—to teach basic principles about how science works and ways it can be used to strengthen virtually any news story. Registration is free […]

To launch the release of the Indigenous Voices report, the Colorado News Collaborative, Colorado Media Project, Mountain West News Bureau. and The Colorado Trust would like to invite you to an in-person event on May 9 to come together and discuss the recommendations with other members of Indigenous communities and Colorado journalists.  The event will […]

The Knight Center has joined forces with the Solutions Journalism Network to bring you a new free online course “Solutions journalism: New ways of elevating your reporting and engaging audiences.” Solutions journalism can help you create rigorous and compelling reporting about people who are trying to find solutions to address some of today’s most pressing […]

Are you in higher education and looking for internship opportunities for your students? Are you a newsroom planning to host an internship program this summer? If so, join the Workforce Development Pathways working group for our May call. Because this work is timely and summer is fast approaching, this group will convene four times between […]

Local Media Association (LMA) is launching a new lab program aimed at finding paths to sustainability for family-owned and independent local media organizations. Directors of the LMA Family and Independent Media Sustainability Lab — FIMS Lab for short — and a team of expert consultants will work for one year with key leaders of 12 family-owned and […]

Presented by Experts on Camera from SciLine: Urban Forestry Research suggests that adding trees in cities has benefits for the environment and for human health. Available Expert: Dr. Vivek Shandas is a professor and the director of the Sustaining Urban Places Research Lab at Portland State University. He can speak about topics including: –The effects of trees on […]