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The current top story on our website, you’ll notice, is a partnership between Future of Good and The Investigative Journalism Foundation.
I love partnerships. I’ve written before about the need for news organizations, in this age of broken revenue models and shrinking newsrooms, to work together rather than continue to compete against each other.
Now don’t get me wrong – every journalist loves a good scoop – but with resources scarce, it makes sense to share them when you can.
If you’re working in the social good sector, you likely agree with this collaborative output, but for newsrooms, it doesn’t come naturally.
I recall a time not-so-long ago when the local newsrooms in Winnipeg would snipe at each other in print – when they bothered to acknowledge each other’s existence at all.
They wouldn’t admit when another outlet published an impactful story first, and working together with another newsroom was unheard of. We were all competing for the same advertising dollars and eyeballs.
And now, with advertising and eyeballs increasingly fragmented, the end goal is to get people to read your story at all.
It takes trust and kindness to share, and while I constantly worry about how journalism and democracy will survive in the next few years, if one of the outcomes is increased collaboration, then all is not lost.
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