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News Ambassadors @newsambassadors.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

📻 Opportunity alert: There’s one more shot to join a News Ambassadors Depolarization Reporting Strategies trainings before the fall! We typically train groups, but this session will be open to all interested individuals 👀✨ 👉 Learn more & register: sojonewsambassadors.org/events/

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News Ambassadors @newsambassadors.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

📬Our April newsletter is out! In this update, we’re spotlighting a piece from WYPR's Wambui Kamau who reports on a development of tiny homes in Baltimore which is helping bring homeownership opportunities to low-income families. Read the full newsletter here: 👉👉 tinyurl.com/muyerkuv

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News Ambassadors @newsambassadors.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

🎙️Ever wondered which of our trainings might benefit you, your colleagues or your students? Here are the skills you’ll learn — and the difference between solutions journalism and depolarization reporting strategies! ✨ 👉👉 Sign up to be notified of upcoming training opportunities: tinyurl.com/4nhvmxxp

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Photo with text that states: In our Solutions Journalism Training, you’ll learn to center solutions and human resilience in your reporting, share tools that help respond to challenges, evidence-based reporting on responses to social problems, how to highlight responses to challenges, the ways those responses have succeeded or fallen short, and what we can learn from them.

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Training, you’ll learn to feflect various perspectives in your reporting, lean into the nuances in your community, leave audiences curious to learn more, gain confidence interviewing others with different political stances, foster healthier conflict instead of toxic conflict on contentious issues, and strengthen social ties in your community

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News Ambassadors @newsambassadors.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

📻 Our March newsletter spotlights a story from our friends at @kalwradio.bsky.social, where we’ve trained cohorts on solutions journalism and depolarization reporting strategies over the past few years. Read the full newsletter here: 👉👉 tinyurl.com/5y5rd67n [📸 : Mary Catherine O'Connor]

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News Ambassadors @newsambassadors.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

How does a community honor its past while making space to grow its future? In our latest newsletter: student reporting on housing at a rural HBCU campus built on former slave plantation land, where a nearby burial ground houses many unmarked graves. newsambassadors.beehiiv.com/p/how-does-a...

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How does a community honor its past while making space to grow its future?

A tight-knit campus balances the need for student housing with the importance of preserving local burial grounds for formerly enslaved people.

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News Ambassadors @newsambassadors.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Want to bring Depolarization Reporting Strategies training to your newsroom, classroom or fellowship in 2026? Get in touch to explore options for your journalism cohort! Scroll through to see what recent participants are saying about our training! ❤️ Interest form: forms.gle/47VGKX3aA1hN...

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News Ambassadors @newsambassadors.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Thanks to the Scripps Howard Fund, some of our #NewsAmbassadors were able to get 1:1 mentorship this past semester from journalists nationwide. We are helping grow more inclusive and community-focused storytellers.

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News Ambassadors @newsambassadors.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

When flooding hits year after year, who pays the price? News Ambassador Britton Struthers-Lugo reports on urban flooding in Berwyn, Illinois. Check it out in this month's newsletter + tons of journalism resources: newsambassadors.beehiiv.com/p/who-bears-...

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Who bears the cost when urban flooding is a yearly reality?

The close-knit Illinois suburb of Berwyn has faced repeated flooding that overwhelms outdated infrastructure and lacks obvious unified solutions. Student journalists are reporting on what can be learn...

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News Ambassadors @newsambassadors.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

When survivors of gun violence are discharged from the hospital, who helps them heal? This month’s newsletter spotlights a story where community members are stepping in to support disabled survivors left behind by the healthcare system. Read it here: newsambassadors.beehiiv.com/p/who-cares-...

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Who cares for gun violence survivors when the healthcare system fails them?

Disabled survivors outnumber those killed by guns 2 to 1. So why are they often left out of the narrative?

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News Ambassadors @newsambassadors.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

A healthy local democracy thrives when people with different views work together to tackle shared challenges. We’re spotlighting “22 Questions to Complicate the Narrative" from the @soljourno.bsky.social to avoid simple pro/con binary reporting. Check it out here: s3.amazonaws.com/sjn-static/C...

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News Ambassadors @newsambassadors.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Journalists! Two powerful trainings coming up: May 27 @ 1PM EST Convening Your Community w/ Hearken + Ken Schneck Learn how to host fair community-led convos. June 3 @ 3PM EST Depolarization Reporting Strategies Led by Dana Amihere, founder of AfroLA + NA mentor. Links in our latest newsletter!

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News Ambassadors @newsambassadors.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Who gets to tell the American story? This month we are spotlighting student reporters from Montclair University who traveled to California to help fill gaps in historical coverage of Asian American immigration through Angel Island. newsambassadors.beehiiv.com/p/who-gets-t...

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Who gets to tell the American story

Journalism students help fill gaps in history that ripples into coverage today

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News Ambassadors @newsambassadors.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Attention fans of pluralistic democracy: Check out these strategies for journalists and storytellers to move beyond oversimplified, polarizing narratives to tell stronger stories of "we" with help from News Ambassadors, Citizen University, PACE and Cinereach. citizenuniversity.us/news/civic-c...

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Civic culture: messaging & storytelling guidance ⋆ Citizen University

Recommendations and resources to support your writing and reporting to tell more compelling "stories of us."

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News Ambassadors @newsambassadors.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

News Ambassadors enlists college journalism students to help local newsrooms fill gaps in coverage of underreported communities with rigorously reported stories that uplift solutions and common ground. Please subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop!

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News Ambassadors @newsambassadors.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Journalists/Storytellers: Join us Monday to learn how "Complicating the Narratives" in our stories can help strengthen civic culture? It's part of a Citizen University workshop for journalists & storytellers. Register HERE: lnkd.in/eQBsBhNZ Learn more here: thefulcrum.us/media-techno...

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