Take control of the narrative by joining PMN’s Neighborhood Voices Network

The Neighborhood Voices Network puts control of the media in your hands. Control your narrative and see your story and community represented in the media.

Are you tired of the type of news stories you see about your community? Do you feel that important stories and voices are left out of mainstream media? Then take control of the media.

 

Public Media Network is launching the Neighborhood Voices Network to put control of the media in your hands. If you want to control your narrative and see your story and community represented in the media, then the Neighborhood Voices Network might be for you.

 

Neighborhood Journalists will be given the training, platform, and tools to start  reporting on news in their community.  The Neighborhood Journalist Network, will showcase media coverage from a wide array of voices. More people, and more perspectives, means that news coverage will be more well-rounded, and lift up more voices in the community.

 

The Neighborhood Voices Network program begins virtually the week of Nov. 16. Meeting times TBD.

 

More about the program

 

Anyone interested in telling a story, and is ages 14+, is invited to become a Neighborhood Journalist for Public Media Network. Neighborhood Journalists will be trained with all the tools needed to be successful, including instruction in topics like: what makes a story newsworthy, interviewing strategies, writing basics, AP Style, event coverage, journalism ethics, video storytelling, asset based thinking and reporting, and equipment basics. 

 

Neighborhood Journalists will go through a five-session virtual training period, taking place once a week. Following this, Neighborhood Journalists are invited to a bi-weekly meeting led by PMN Journalist Raine Kuch and including other PMN staff members. These meetings will give journalists the opportunity to collaborate with each other, get feedback on story ideas and learn more about what is happening in the community. Stories or event coverage can be assigned to interested journalists at this meeting. The program is designed to be highly flexible to any schedule needs.  

 

The Neighborhood Voices Network is currently scheduled to begin meeting the third week of November. Apply now at the link below, or contact rkuch@publicmedianet.org for more information