We’re now making available many of the presentations and slide decks from the conference. To find presentations, visit the conference schedule and click on the session or workshop you’re interested in.
Conference Schedule
The intensive clinic track returned. For those with a specific idea for project, the conference offered four dedicated clinics over two days to help attendees leave with a proposal that can become a reality. For five projects, Illinois Humanities is providing funding to get the project started and the support and expertise needed to make it a success. More information on those specific projects will be announced in early 2020.
Please, visit the main conference page to see all previous grantees, fellows, and other work supported by the conference.
We believe that successful engagement is inherently collaborative, and that “engaged” journalism extends beyond the work of the newsroom. This two-day conference provides tools for journalists, civic-engagement specialists and community storytellers to create a more collaborative and equitable news landscape by strengthening the connections between news organizations and the people they cover. We’ll take a hands-on approach to explore where educators, artists, tech developers and others share common goals with journalists.
This conference aims to provide a space for journalists, civic-engagement practitioners and community storytellers to work together on a shared goal: strengthening the connections between news organizations and the people they cover, in order to create a more collaborative and equitable news and information landscape.
Over the course of two days, we’ll take an in-depth, hands-on approach to the challenges and opportunities surrounding engagement-driven journalism. At the same time, we believe that successful engagement is inherently collaborative, and that “engaged” journalism extends beyond the work of the newsroom: we’ll also think creatively and strategically about how journalists and people outside the newsroom — educators, artists, technologists, organizers and more — can work toward common goals.
The conference will take place at 1104 S. Wabash Ave on the Columbia College Chicago campus. The session list be available soon.
Lodging is available at a variety of price points within walking distance of the conference. A few of the closest options are listed below. Please note that Illinois Humanities cannot guarantee rates or availability.
Best Western Grant Park
1100 S. Michigan Ave (<0.1 mi from venue)
Hilton Chicago
720 S. Michigan Ave. (0.3 mi from venue)
Travelodge Hotel Downtown Chicago
65 E. Harrison St. (0.4 mi from venue)
Congress Plaza Hotel
520 S. Michigan Ave. (0.5 mi from venue)
If you’re willing to go a bit farther afield, there are many more options at multiple price points within walking distance of the CTA’s Red, Orange and Green Lines, which stop at the Roosevelt station (one block from the conference venue).
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GroundSource is a community engagement platform that powers direct, two-way conversations between newsrooms and the communities they serve, to gather on-the-ground perspectives and build lasting relationships.
City Bureau is a newsroom and journalism training lab that seeks to regenerate civic media ecosystems within historically disenfranchised and underreported neighborhoods, and to create a sustainable pipeline of innovative and locally responsive reporting on the city’s South and West sides.
The Listening Post Collective provides resources, tools, peer-to-peer support and a shared learning space for journalists, newsroom leaders and community groups looking to revitalize their local news and information ecosystems.
Gather, a project and platform to support community-minded journalists and other engagement professionals, is a collaborative initiative led by the Agora Journalism Center, the gathering place for innovation and communication in civic engagement, at University of Oregon’s School of Journalism & Communication.
ProPublica Illinois is a non-profit newsroom focused on investigative journalism in the public interest. It is the first state-level expansion of ProPublica, headquartered in New York City.
Coral by Vox Media brings journalists and their communities closer together through open-source tools and best practices for newsrooms of all sizes.
This conference is made possible in part by our partners and hosts at Columbia College Chicago, an international leader and recognized pioneer in arts and media education.
