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When winners of the Associated Press Media Editor (APME) Journalism Excellence Awards were announced earlier this month, "collaborative innovation" was a winning theme. The investigative journalism collaboration between the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (WCIJ) was honored with the first ever Innovator of the Year for College Students award.... more »
Editor's note: Collaboration Central occasionally looks at collaborations outside of the media to glean lessons for what works elsewhere. This story looks at collaboration in the Brooklyn food scene to explore inspiration for media organizations. Collaborative brewing is widespread enough that in 2010 Craftbeer.com ran a lengthy list of collaboration beers under the headline, "Peace, Love and Collabeeration." But when... more »
Cohesion can be difficult in any project -- but it's especially challenging in long-distance collaborations among newsrooms, the kind of journalism the Investigative News Network tries to foster among our growing consortium of 62 members. How do you get a group of journalists scattered around the country to coalesce around an idea? There are many different approaches, but one we've... more »
The Journalism Accelerator/Collab Central forum on collaboration and revenue held earlier this spring surfaced more than two dozen examples of collaboration in action. One detailed use case involved an investigative report on deportations from the U.S. to Haiti. Originally commissioned by the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting with a grant from The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund, the project deepened the... more »
Journalism schools can be as competitive as newsrooms: They compete for students, foundation grants, faculty and reputation. But spurred by the Carnegie-Knight initiative on the Future of Journalism, deans and representatives from 17 universities (including me) spent a day at Harvard University discussing what they can collectively do to support public interest reporting. It was a form of collaboration that... more »
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