How newsrooms collaborating helps their local communities
Collaboration across newsrooms can help to serve communities in deeper, more impactful ways. In metro Detroit, this takes shape through the Collaborative Detroit Newsrooms Network, where Outlier Media leads a group of newsrooms that collaborate around stories, issues and events. The members include Detroit Free Press, Bridge Detroit, Outlier Media, Chalkbeat Detroit, Michigan Public, WDET (101.9…
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