A recent survey shows that 91 percent of public radio stations want to collaborate more closely with their local university. So what’s getting in the way?
The University Station Alliance (U:SA) and Center for Community News (CCN) announce a series of webinars for stations and others wanting to create effective partnerships for student-produced, faculty-supervised journalism.
Hosted by Peter Dominowski, Executive Director of U:SA, and Scott Finn from CCN, the webinar series will discuss why creating these partnerships is worth the effort, and talk with leaders from both stations and academia about how they have made these partnerships successful and sustainable.
The first webinar will be “I’m completely booked. Why should I do this, and how do I get started?” on March 7 at 1 p.m. Eastern, 10 a.m. Pacific. The webinars are free, and advance registration is required.
Six monthly webinars are scheduled and will tackle how students can help cover this year’s elections, how to make the case for these partnerships, and how to ensure that students produce quality journalism.
“U:SA is excited to be collaborating with CCN,” said Peter Dominowski, Executive Director. “Together, we’ll encourage public media organizations to work with their institutions to provide more high-quality journalism and content. Our webinars will provide actionable information stations can use to develop these win-win partnerships, benefitting stations, Universities, students, and most importantly, the communities that we serve.”
“Our research shows so much potential for more collaboration between university public media collaboration,” said Richard Watts, Executive Director, Center for Community News at the University of Vermont. “They just need help figuring out how.”
For more information, contact Peter Dominowski of U:SA at executive.director@us-alliance.org, or Scott Finn from CCN at finnadvising@gmail.com.
The University Station Alliance (https://us-alliance.org)
The Center for Community News (https://www.uvm.edu/ccn)