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📻 Newsroom Digest: Celebrating community and local media

PLUS: Recent updates from around the NJ local news ecosystem

https://t.co/ks5jAxbDxF

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Kathy Merritt to receive 'Keystone Collaborator' award https://t.co/8E4ZfbyJjj

[Max Resnik @MaxResnik]

Collaborative journalism is impactful journalism! Documenters and newsroom partners are looking into how federal budget shifts impact life in cities and counties across the US.

[Jersey Shore Online @jshoreonline]

👏 Congrats to @jshoreonline - Stephanie Faughnan, honored with a 2026 Excellence in Community Media Award for her investigative reporting.🏆 Here she is with company VP Jason Allentoff at today’s luncheon at TCNJ. @CenterCoopMedia Long Live Local News! 📰 📱

[Center for Cooperative Media @CenterCoopMedia]

Planning to attend #CJS2026 as a work trip?

Here are some resources and templates to make the reimbursement and travel auth process easier.

Let us know what else we should add to this kit!

https://t.co/uvq54uzSBN

[NJ News Commons @NJNewsCommons]

🗝️ Newsroom Digest: A look back at 2025 in NJ local news

PLUS: The new Excellence in Community Media Awards

https://t.co/kPsnV34JUo

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Safety training for journalists will be offered at CJS - https://t.co/6Wz8zEkBRQ

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👀 First look at the schedule for the 2026 Collaborative Journalism Summit

The 10th anniversary #CJS2026 session lineup is starting to come together!

https://t.co/36qSAUp9XS

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How can collaboratives and individual news organizations fundraise in the same ecosystem? - https://t.co/uaI12gz7It

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🎙️NJ News Commons workshop: Using public data to report on SNAP policy changes

Join us on 2/18 for a hands-on training focused on SNAP funding and food insecurity in NJ

https://t.co/Rqkr1s3ZtA

[GIJN Africa @gijnAfrica]

Apply for @CenterCoopMedia's collaborative sustainability accelerator.

The sustainability accelerator is designed to coach collaboratives on building their own business goals for financial self-sufficiency.

Deadline: February 27. https://t.co/NBrEdQcrsK

[Joe Amditis @jsamditis]

The Portal Bridge cutover starts Saturday.

If you cover transit in New Jersey — or if you run a community site, town Facebook page, or commuter forum — you can now put Reroute NJ tools directly on your website.

https://t.co/wPFPEfHH3K

[Joe Amditis @jsamditis]

made a free tool to help people navigate the NJ Transit changes during the portal bridge repairs

https://t.co/nQYRCPpQkW

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Apply now for our Sustainability Accelerator - https://t.co/fVNvlM5VDH

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🎉 100 days until CJS2026!

The 10th annual Collaborative Journalism Summit returns to Philadelphia May 14-15.

Join us as we celebrate a decade of building a more collaborative news ecosystem.

Visit https://t.co/Euz7jseX63 to learn more and get tickets TODAY!

[NJ Civic Info Consortium @NJCivicInfo]

NJCIC is now accepting funding applications! We fund nonprofit, community-based media organizations that strengthen access to local news and promote civic engagement with a focus on underserved communities.

https://t.co/4i0cqyFCEE

[ICIJ @ICIJorg]

ICIJ's #ChinaTargets, The #CoinLaundry and #DamascusDossier were part of @CenterCoopMedia's picks for the top 10 collaborations of 2025: ICIJ "delivered three massive investigations in 2025 that exemplify the power of cross-border collaboration." https://t.co/jw2MSxL65L

[Center for Cooperative Media @CenterCoopMedia]

✨ Join us May 14-15 in Philly for this year's Collaborative Journalism Summit!

It's going to be an awesome event. This year, we'll have an awards dinner and celebrate 10 years of collaboration.

Also: Do you have a session to pitch? Send it in!

More: https://t.co/NkehP3gnrb

[Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative (PJC) @PHLJournoCollab]

So excited to have the Collaborative Journalism Summit back in Philly!

[Center for Cooperative Media @CenterCoopMedia]

The Collaborative Journalism Resource Hub marks one year of impact by supporting four new journalism collaboratives that bring together news organizations, universities, and community groups to tackle critical local issues.

https://t.co/2CqTjZI2kV