漏 2024 外网天堂 has long been committed to listening to our community members and soliciting story ideas and sources from them. We鈥檝e been doing this over the years through , our daily newsletter, and our social media accounts 鈥� especially Facebook and Twitter.
But recently, we joined a collaboration that will help us take this engagement to a new level. We鈥檝e committed to increasing our engagement journalism efforts this year by partnering with other public radio stations and collaborating networks in a regional reporting initiative called .
This project was originally geared toward covering the 2020 election. It is funded by a , and was launched in the fall of 2019 to bring a different kind of reporting into public media coverage of this year鈥檚 election.
But the spread of the coronavirus shifted everyone鈥檚 attention, so America Amplified has pivoted its focus toward covering the pandemic and providing resources for public media to continue to engage with the communities they cover during this crisis.
This initiative prioritizes community engagement in reporting by emphasizing the quality of the relationships cultivated for a story.
America Amplified aims to put people at the center of its reporting process 鈥� in this era of 鈥渟ocial distancing,鈥� such as crowd-sourcing, text messaging and virtual town halls, the first of which is scheduled to take place in early June.
漏 2024 外网天堂 will also use our nightly , polls and social media to listen first to the concerns and aspirations of communities in the metro area and across Missouri.
The goal of America Amplified is to create and share models of community engagement success stories to inform and strengthen future local, regional and national journalism.
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