What does it mean to build a newsroom by listening first? On July 30 at 3 p.m. ET, the Tiny News Collective (TNC) and the Listening Post Collective (LPC) will bring together six community news outlets for a special webinar to answer that question.

For more than a year, TNC and LPC have coordinated support for tiny newsrooms, helping them develop the tools and practices to listen to their communities before they report on them.

This 90-minute conversation will feature six newsrooms who have turned listening into a core part of their practice:

• Black Belt News Network, serving five rural counties in Alabama
• Connect Puerto Rico, covering renewable energy development in Puerto Rico
• Ethiopique, serving an Ethiopian diaspora community
• The 51st, covering the Washington, D.C., area
• The Edge, located in Berea and Madison County, Kentucky
• Tucson Spotlight, bilingual coverage of Southern Arizona

Pathways, not pipelines

💡What we’ve learned in the first year of TNC’s partnership with Listening Post Collective

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For anyone building or supporting local news right now, this webinar offers a direct look at how community engagement plays out across widely different contexts, and what patterns emerge when six newsrooms independently arrive at similar lessons. It's a chance to hear how these outlets decide what to cover with the input of communities.

We invite you to register here for the July 30 webinar and to share it with friends and colleagues.