Tag: Hearken
Newsrooms ramp up audience engagement tactics for coronavirus coverage
Public media's largest and smallest newsrooms find that coverage shaped by listeners and readers invites more participation and builds trust.Public broadcasters, nonprofit media receive grants to use Hearken and GroundSource
The Community Listening Engagement Fund awarded $241,000 to subsidize costs of platforms that help newsrooms integrate journalism into their communities.Media funders launch initiative to restore audience trust through engagement
A new grant-making initiative will subsidize costs for newsrooms to adopt the Hearken and GroundSource platforms.Want to be good for democracy? Be better at democracy
The founder of Hearken argues that the processes by which most journalism is created are not nearly as democratic as they could ...Hearken raises $700,000 in seed funding
The funding will help the company double its staff in the next year and develop new features.Current partners with Hearken to launch Currently Curious
You can help set our editorial agenda. What do you want to know?Three New Jersey newsrooms sign up with Hearken
The newsrooms are the latest to adopt the platform, which lets the public assign and collaborate on news stories.
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