New England Newspaper & Press Association

In a hyperpolarized country, where audiences are increasingly avoiding the news, can journalism about politics and controversy be surprising, healthy for democracy and compelling?

This special webinar will explore a Good Conflict approach to covering politics and controversy. We will explain the basics of Good Conflict journalism and highlight one specific storytelling strategy. We will then watch and dissect one particular video news story (about a surprising small-town election) that was developed using this strategy.

Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ujO2F73FZk0

We will discuss what worked and what didn’t work and how to translate this approach for a print, radio, or commercial TV news story. Then participants will workshop ways they could apply similar techniques to stories they are working on.

This session will be recorded.

Instructors: Hélène Biandudi Hofer and Amanda Ripley, co-founders of Good Conflict

About Good Conflict: Journalists Hélène and Amanda started Good Conflict to help people tell more interesting stories and have smarter fights. Previously, Amanda and Hélène worked with the Solutions Journalism Network to develop the Complicating the Narratives essay and workshop. Hélène is a documentary filmmaker and journalist who has worked with CBS, NPR, and PBS and trained more than a thousand journalists across 125 newsrooms throughout the world. Amanda is the author of High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped–and How We Get Out and a journalist who has worked for Time Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post.

This webinar is presented by the Advancing Democracy initiative, which supports journalists working at the intersection of trust, engagement and solutions journalism to reimagine how they cover politics, elections and government. The initiative is led by the Solutions Journalism Network in partnership with Hearken and Trusting News. To learn more about Advancing Democracy, visit https://advancing-democracy.org.

Nonprofits are raising millions of dollars with fundraising sweepstakes… and you can reach the same level of success. Learn how to dial into untapped sweepstakes potential with the experts at TapKat. With TapKat’s proven approach to fundraising sweepstakes, even small nonprofits are raising millions of dollars, significantly growing their donor base, and gaining exposure. This hour-long, action-packed webinar will showcase case studies and specific examples of tools you can put into practice right away.

According to the Pew-Knight Initiative, about half of Americans say news isn’t relevant to their lives. Join Poynter Beat Academy and a leading expert from Pew Research Center on Thursday, March 12, at 1 p.m. Eastern to unpack findings from the Pew-Knight Initiative about how the public is drifting away from news, how they come across it, and what they do to check what they see.

Overview

• Explore recent studies on how Americans view journalists in the digital age.
• Delve into lessons from news influencers and grasp what moves the needle for consumers.
• Get your questions answered during the live session and access resource materials in the course afterwards.

Webinar offered free of charge thanks to the support from the Pew-Knight Initiative.

Rich or poor, red or blue – everyone is a consumer. In this practical, ideas-filled session, veteran Chicago consumer reporters Stephanie Zimmermann of the Chicago Sun-Times and Jason Knowles of ABC7Chicago offer up easy as well as more difficult versions of consumer stories that you can replicate in your market. They’ll also explain how to set up consumer coverage for your newsroom, even if you don’t have a dedicated consumer beat reporter. Presented by the Online News Association.

You see our bylines at InDepthNH.org. Now we’ll tell you how we fight for all of our right-to-know. Celebrate Sunshine Week with us on Wednesday, March 18. Join us online from 6 to 7:30 pm. Event link below.

GET FREE TICKETS HERE: https://tinyurl.com/4pm3vvup

Join founder Nancy West and author/board members Beverly Stoddart and Bob Charest, veteran reporters Garry Rayno, Paula Tracy, Damien Fisher, Katharine Webster, and Zach Laird. And special guest Laurie Ortolano, RTK activist.

Presented by the New England First Amendment Coalition.

Speaker
Edward Fitzpatrick is a Rhode Island-based reporter for The Boston Globe, where he writes about state government and Rhode Island politics. He has won numerous awards from the Rhode Island Press Association for a wide range of stories, from spot news to education coverage to business features and profiles, and received special recognition in 2022 for his innovative and insightful coverage of state and local elections. As the host of the weekly Rhode Island Report podcast, he has interviewed local luminaries, national and state politicians, and other newsmakers. He’s a familiar face at local political debates, where he frequently serves as moderator, and he co-hosts and moderates live events for the Globe as part of “Rhode Island Report Live.” Before coming to the Globe in 2019, he was the director of media and public relations for Roger Williams University. Prior to that, he worked for 16 years at the Providence Journal, including eight years as the political columnist and five years as the courts reporter. He has also worked as a reporter at the Hartford Courant, the Albany Times Union, and was the city editor at the Saratogian. He is a board member of the New England First Amendment Coalition and a former board member of Common cause Rhode Island. He is a graduate of Syracuse University, where he earned a degree in magazine journalism and political science.