News Ambassadors is a reporting project that will help American communities that hold vastly different political views to better understand each other, while giving young reporters a valuable learning experience in the creation of credible reporting.
The project originated in journalism schools and organizations in a range of locations. Working with our partners, The University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, MO; and the Audio Department at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in New York, NY; a pilot was produced in the Fall of 2022.
In 2021, we created this series of short audio pieces with student reporters, exploring the regional differences on issues surrounding the COVID virus in the US. Along with our pilot partners, others that participated in that test project were Mercer University’s Center for Collaborative Journalism in Macon, GA; USC’s Annenberg Media Center in Los Angeles, CA; YR Media (formerly Youth Radio) in Oakland, CA; University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications in Gainesville, FL; and CUNY Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York.We look forward to working with these great reporting institutions again as News Ambassadors progresses.
The News Ambassadors initial pilot project was part of InterAct’s Digital Citizen, which has been connecting Americans to their leaders, each other and the world since 1998. In 2023-24, News Ambassadors will launch an expanded pilot with the non-profit Bridge Alliance Education Fund.
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