News groups collaborate to focus on Northeast Indiana housing

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Fort Wayne Media Collaborative) – A bunch of Northeast Indiana media organizations and affiliated establishments are happy to announce the creation of the Fort Wayne Media Collaborative, with a grant from the Knight Basis, and underneath the steering of the New York-based Options Journalism Community.

The Collaborative has launched a year-long mission to report and produce a collection of tales targeted on the housing disaster that has had disastrous results for a lot of Northeast Indiana residents.

The Collaborative is made up of 9 media organizations – WANE-TV, WBOI-FM Public Radio, Enter Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne Journal, Fort Wayne Ink Spot, El Mexicano, Blacklight Media, and Lofthouse Movies – and a number of other native tutorial establishments – Purdue Fort Wayne, the College of Saint Francis, Indiana Institute of Know-how, the Allen County Public Library – whose leaders care deeply concerning the housing disaster that has divided and devastated your entire group.

In 2021, representatives from Enter Fort Wayne (an Subject Media Group publication), the Middle for Collaborative Media at Purdue Fort Wayne, and Fort Wayne Ink Spot approached the Options Journalism Community (SJN) to debate essentially the most pressing points dealing with their group. This mission is launching with assist from SJN’s Native Media Undertaking initiative.

The Options Journalism Community is a nonprofit dedicated to reworking journalism and giving all folks entry to information that helps them envision and construct a extra equitable and sustainable world. The Native Media Undertaking (LMP) is a multi-year initiative launched in 2019, with assist from the John S. and James L. Knight Basis in addition to the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Basis, to strengthen and reinvigorate native media ecosystems by the catalyzing of sustainable options journalism-oriented collaboratives.

The Fort Wayne Collaborative will discover options to the area’s housing disaster primarily based on stable proof, and suggest actions that governments, establishments, neighborhoods, and people can take to vary the group dynamic, ease human struggling, and foster the creation of thriving neighborhoods.

Over the approaching yr, Collaborative members will analysis, report, create and publish its work on the group’s web site, and on the web sites, TV, radio, and in print publications of our member organizations. The group hopes to encourage Northeast Indiana residents to inform their very own tales, turn into lively of their communities, demand change the place wanted, and decide to enhancing the well being of their neighborhoods and communities.

For extra data, contact Undertaking Supervisor Julie Creek at  julie@centerforgrantresearchandwriting.com  or 260-466-8235.

Meet the Fort Wayne Media Collaborative

Members of the Media Collaborative will likely be talking at 89.1 WBOI’s Points & Ales panel at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Might 4, at Coyote Creek Golf Membership, 4935 Hillegas Rd. in Fort Wayne.

WBOI’s Points & Ales is an award-winning panel dialogue occasion targeted on points necessary to the Fort Wayne group. Panelists take viewers questions (in-person, by electronic mail or through social media), and work on the solutions whereas visitors loosen up with a chunk to eat or a drink.

This occasion is free and open to the general public.

The dialogue on Might 4 will function:

• Schooling in Indiana: what’s subsequent after COVID and the 2022 legislative session
• The Fort Wayne Media Collaborative: a bunch of native media retailers together with WBOI trying to sort out the difficulty of reasonably priced housing within the space and attainable options