The Land is excited to announce that we’re running our first-ever Lakewood Community Journalism program!
Since late 2021, The Land has been educating Greater Clevelanders on how to report on their neighborhoods. We’ve educated more than 100 students and published more than 150 articles by Community Journalism graduates. Attendees learn the basics of how to be a journalist, what it means to be a community reporter and hone their media literacy skills. They work on stories throughout the course, with the goal of publishing on The Land. The resulting stories provide valuable community news and give residents a voice in how their cities and neighborhoods are discussed in the media.
We plan to run two Lakewood Community Journalism programs in 2025. Our first session will start March 24 and continue for 12 weeks. Our program is free to attend and is open to any person living in Lakewood. All classes are conducted on Zoom, in an attemp to make them more accessible. Graduates who publish an article with The Land will receive a $300 stipend and an invitation to network and continue working with The Land. Applications for the program are now open!
A second program will be run later in 2025. We’ll announce those dates and the application process in our newsletter and on social media.
This will be our first program focused on developing the voices of community reporters in one of Cleveland’s inner-ring suburbs. We’re grateful for the support of Healthy Lakewood Foundation, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, and other partners as we expand our programming to more Greater Clevelanders.
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