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Creative in-person ideas to increase audience engagement

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A conversation with Gabrielle Contesti NowKalamazoo is a nonprofit community news service that serves Kalamazoo County in Michigan. Since its founding in 2019, the news organization has experimented with different innovative strategies to involve the community in their reporting, as well as interactive ways to learn about civics and media literacy. This has included…

 

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