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Finding a common ground: Creating and managing news partnerships

 
By Sam Condon
Ball State University ASNE-APME Convention Coverage Team 

Collaborations formed between newsrooms and companies such as ProPublica and New America Media are providing journalists and editors with some of the highest views in news stories. Debbie Galant, Associate Director, Center for Cooperative Media, Montclair State University has spent her time at the New Jersey college focusing on open data movements, peer-to-peer mentoring and story sharing. 
 
Collaborations formed between newsrooms and companies such as ProPublica and New America Media are providing journalists and editors with some of the highest views in news stories. Debbie Galant, Associate Director, Center for Cooperative Media, Montclair State University has spent her time at the New Jersey college focusing on open data movements, peer-to-peer mentoring and story 
sharing. 

After Hurricane Sandy hit, Galant and her colleagues opened up both classrooms and virtual lectures to learn of the after effects the storm left on the community. Her open data movement, known as Hack Jersey, reached over 20,000 impressions in just a matter of hours.  

Ngoc Hguyen, editor-in-chief, New American Media, has also amounted to great success through many different partnerships. However, she doesn't count the number of people who read her articles, but instead through the number of conversations brought up about the taboo topics she covered within small ethnic communications. 

Each partnership is different depending on whom you work along side.  Steve Engelberg, Editor-In-Chief, ProPublica, has collaboratively partnered with music video performers, and the results became some of the highest paid views in ProPublica history.   

“There are more and more partnerships being made," Engelberg said. "They may eventually level out. But that will take a while.” 

“Institutional funds are nudging people into partnerships,” stated Galandt. 

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