Community engagement presentation with guest speakers Halle Stockton (Managing Editor, PublicSource), Ben Nishimoto, (Director of Philanthropy, Honolulu Civil Beat), and Meg Waters (Development Director, Voice of OC)

1. Community Engagement Powerhouses
INN Days June 14, 2018
Orlando, Fla.
• Halle Stockton, Managing Editor, PublicSource,
halle@publicsource.org, @HalleStockton
• Ben Nishimoto, Director of Philanthropy, Honolulu Civil
Beat, bnishimoto@civilbeat.org, @Ben_Nishimoto
• Meg Waters, Development Director, Voice of OC,
mwaters@voiceofoc.org, @voiceofoc
Moderator: Melanie Sill, news consultant, Membership
Puzzle Project and Democracy Fund

3. — Susan Forde, professor of journalism at Griffith University, who has studied
community media for 20 years, from “Our new recipe for talking about ‘public
trust’ in media,” Membership Puzzle Project.
“Audiences report that they return to these outlets
because they feel the announcers and journalists are
accessible; they feel the news site or the station
belongs to their community and represents it in all its
diversity; that the organization is delivering
something of a selfless community service; and they
have a standpoint but it is transparent.”

7. A few resources:
• Gather: Connection, discussion, community of practice
around engaged journalism. https://gather.fmyi.com
• The Year of Listening: https://theyearoflistening.org, via
News Integrity Initiative at CUNY.
• American Press Institute’s research and articles on
community engagement.
• Guide to Audience Revenue and Engagement, Tow
Center for Digital Journalism, Membership Puzzle Project
and INN.