Josh Stearns
Social Innovation
Washington, DC, United States
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Past articles by Joshua:
Philanthropy and the Future of Local News
How foundations, journalists, and community organizers in New Jersey passed the nation’s first civic information bill. → Read More
What We Learned Through NewsMatch Can Help All of Local News
How the 2018 NewsMatch campaign helped 150 newsrooms raise $7.6 million in two months. → Read More
NewsMatch 2018 raises $7.6 million, fueling growth in local news and investigative journalism.
The largest grassroots campaign to support local news and investigative reporting just had a record breaking year, growing community support for nonprofit journalism. → Read More
How We Know Journalism is Good for Democracy
According to new data being released later this month, at least 900 communities across the United States have faced profound erosion in their access to local news and information since 2004. Writing… → Read More
Local News is a Building Block to Rebuild Trust – Trust, Media and Democracy –
The erosion of public trust in media is not one problem but many. A complex array of systems and forces — including economics, technology, policy, politics, culture, and more — that have become… → Read More
The Future Of America’s Free Press Is In Our Hands
Turning #GivingTuesday into #GivingNewsDay -- a new national campaign will match donations to nonprofit journalism. → Read More
The Boston Celtics (based on record) are the best team in the NBA
Raise your hand if you thought the Boston Celtics would be 15–2 at this point. No one should have their hand raised. I don’t even think the most optimistic Celtic fans had them doing this well… → Read More
Blake-led Clippers are flying high – Josh. –
Chris Paul and Blake Griffin were great together. They delivered some of the best seasons in Los Angeles Clipper history. However, it was time for them to break up. Time to see Prime Blake with his… → Read More
Can philanthropy help rebuild trust in news and the public square?
Today there is real concern about the spread of misinformation and issues of basic trust in our democratic institutions, including the press. → Read More
NYU and De Correspondent Launch New Laboratory for Community Supported Investigative News
Rebuilding trust in journalism means rethinking the relationship between readers, revenue and reporting. That idea is at the heart of a new project launching today. The Membership Puzzle Project, a… → Read More
How Journalism Schools Can Train a New Generation of Fierce Fact Checkers
Last November journalism Professor Jay Rosen wrote about the key lessons he’s teaching as part of his “digital thinking” course at New York University. → Read More
Here’s How 4 Hyper-Local Newsrooms are Harnessing Video
This post first appeared on Medium. In January, media consultant Mario Garcia wrote that 2016 would be “the year of (more and better) video” and argued that “video should be central to any newsroom’s digital strategy. → Read More
How J-Schools Can Train a New Generation of Fierce Fact-Checkers
Last November journalism Professor Jay Rosen wrote about the key lessons he’s teaching as part of this “digital thinking” course at New York University. → Read More
What improv could teach newsrooms
The critical success of Spotlight, the new film about the Boston Globe’s investigation into the Catholic sex abuse scandal, has prompted a lot of discussion about cinematic portrayals of journalism. But there’s another way to look at the... → Read More
Don’t Hide From Your Community: Embrace Transparency as a Tool to Deepen Engagement
When we talk about transparency in journalism we tend to discuss it in terms of the people and institutions we cover, or as an alternative to unrealistic notions of objectivity. However, transparency… → Read More
Tools for verifying and assessing the validity of social media and user-generated content
2015 Overview of tools that can help journalists assess the reliability of materials generated by users and diffused through social media → Read More
My Kingdom for a Platform: The Opportunities and Threats of Publishing Direct to Facebook
The New York Times is reporting on Facebook’s pitch to get news organizations to host more content directly on the social network, a scoop first reported by the late David Carr last year. → Read More
Pew Report Underscores Gaps in Local News
People are hungry for local news and they follow local issues and debates closely. I’ve seen that in my daily work with newsrooms and communities in New Jersey and New York, and it is reinforced in a new report on “Local News in a Digital Age” just released by the Pew Research Center. Using surveys, news content analysis and interviews, the study attempted to map the local news ecosystem and… → Read More
Why Journalism Needs to Build With the Community, Not for It
At the end of last year Kristin Hare of the Poynter Institute was collecting tech resolutions for 2015 and asked for mine. Here is what I wrote: In 2015 I want to help more journalists build with their communities, not just for their communities. → Read More
#JeSuisCharlie: Defending Freedom of Expression Depends on All of Us
When I heard about the attack on the offices of the French satirical weekly magazine, Charlie Hebdo, with 12 people killed including four top political cartoonists, I was speechless. → Read More