In partnership with the Knight Center for the Future of News, we're thrilled to announce the National Journalism + AI Accelerator in Phoenix Jan. 6-8 to: 🤖 Explore AI's impact on news 👥 Collaborate with AI innovators 📰 Build strategies for a changing landscape

NEWSWELL contracts with qualified freelance journalists for a variety of positions for our newsrooms: -Stocktonia in Stockton, California -Times of San Diego -Santa Barbara News-Press Do you want to be considered for our freelance pool? Share your information 👉 ow.ly/ep0N50V7V6O

We're excited to work with the Allbritton Journalism Institute! It’s crucial that local readers have quality independent news about the federal government and how decisions from Washington, D.C., impact their lives, jobs, schools and communities.

We heard some great insights at the @knightfoundation.org Media Forum. 👇

Our work at NEWSWELL includes innovative and collaborative ways to tell the news in the communities we serve, and who better to help tell that news than the people who lived through it?

“Local (news) is where we can still have conversations,” NEWSWELL Executive Director Nicole Carroll told an audience gathered to hear from Pulitzer Prize winners tonight in Stockton, California. “Local is where we can still get together and hash through things.”

“We’re teammates, partners with them,” NEWSWELL Executive Director Nicole Carroll told @columjournreview.bsky.social of our local sites. “It’s not a top-down thing.” Thanks to CJR for covering our launch and showcasing Times of San Diego! Learn more about what we're doing to transform local news:

We're getting excited about the Pulitzer on the Road: Stories That Matter event in Stockton on Feb. 13, especially after hearing from some of the panelists. Join @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social winners for a conversation about local news, national politics and the future of journalism in our community.

This is going to be an amazing event! If you're in Stockton or the Bay area on Feb. 13, join us.

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​​NEWSWELL intends to restart the Santa Barbara News-Press, a stalwart of the community for more than 150 years, as a locally based online media outlet. NEWSWELL will provide operational and strategic support, but the News-Press will be led by local editors, reporters and staff.

Introducing NEWSWELL: In too many communities, local news is failing – at a time when the nation needs it most. NEWSWELL Executive Director Nicole Carroll explains our new nonprofit’s bold solution to transform local journalism. Read her column here: www.poynter.org/business-wor...