Join the New England Equity Reporting Fellowship program for a Community of Practice webinar event about building and restoring trust, particularly in communities of color and with sources of differing race, gender, and identities. The webinar is free and open to all practicing journalists in New England.
Building and Restoring Trust in Community Coverage Webinar
Wednesday, May 24, 12:00-1:30 pm EDT
What is the difference between reporting on a community and reporting for a community? Building and restoring trust, within these communities, is a journalistic skill for credible reporting and the reputation of your news outlet. How does a reporter go beyond defining a community solely by its challenges and move to a narrative that highlights community strengths?
Join James E. Causey of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and learn techniques to foster relationships that lead to engaging coverage. Take away practical tips that can help forge relationships and trust in the communities you cover while building content expertise and the foundation for ongoing community engagement.
If you have any questions or difficulty registering, please contact Tara Cleary at t.cleary@nenpa.com.
About the New England Equity Reporting Fellowship:
The program was created in 2021 by the Granite State News Collaborative, New England News Collaborative, New England Newspaper & Press Association, and Solutions Journalism Network, with support from the Endowment for Health. The program aims to improve news reporting and coverage on issues of race and identity and to create an inclusive newsroom culture for participating journalists and newsrooms.

Kevin Landrigan is the State House Bureau chief with the New Hampshire Union Leader. He has nearly 45 years of experience covering politics and public policy for print and broadcast media, having continuously covered the Legislature since 1988 and every presidential primary since 1980. Kevin won a 2022 Publick Occurrences award for his story about sexual molestation charges against the late Union Leader Publisher William Loeb, an honor he shared with colleague Shawne Wickham. In 2020, he won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New Hampshire Press Association, which recognized his coverage of politics and public policy.


Jill Harmacinski, is a staff reporter at The Eagle-Tribune in North Andover, Mass., and covers breaking news, crime and court issues, and local government. She writes a column called “Connections” which focuses on unsung heroes in the Merrimack Valley. Jill won a 2002 Publick Occurrences award for her coverage of the arrest of Marvin “Skip” McClendon Jr., who was charged on April 27, 2022, with the 1988 murder of an 11-year-old girl in Lawrence, Mass. Jill and named the 2022 Sevellon Brown Journalist of the Year.
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David Karpf is an Associate Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, where he has taught since joining the department as an Assistant Professor in 2012. He previously spent two years as an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information. His research explores the internet’s impact on political associations — both in the formation of novel organizational structures seen in MoveOn and DailyKos, and also tracing implications for more traditional advocacy organizations. His first book, The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy was published in May 2012 by Oxford University Press. His second book, Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy was published in December 2016 by Oxford University Press.
Kristen Oliveri is the vice president of communications and marketing at the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. She leads all aspects of the Foundation’s communications and marketing strategies including brand strategy and awareness, public relations and digital and print media.
Gabriela Lozada is a Report for America corps member. Her focus is on Latinx community with original reporting done in Spanish for ¿Qué hay de Nuevo NH?.
Will Katcher is a reporter for MassLive in the Pioneer Valley covering breaking news and the city of Northampton. He is a proud graduate of the University of Massachusett Amherst and a devout live music fan. You can reach him at wkatcher@masslive.com. He can be followed on Twitter at @will_katcher.