Update: One of the roles The BreakingNews Network is to be a clearing house for news services that need to reach local audiences. Local news isn’t just reported by the local press. For example, compelling local stories appear in news services like Colorlines.com, PublicNewsService.org and InvestigativeNewsNetwork.org that are intended for their national readers — but [...]

Update: Speaking of getting journalism students media access to their communities, we’re also providing media voice to the teens at  DoSomething.org so they can promote their local cause campaigns. Our press release is up at  http://thebreakingnewsnetwork.com/2013/04/02/building-a-national-advocate-media-network-with-dosomething-org/. The unique feature of our work with DoSomething is in the building of local advocate networks. Teens generally aren’t old enough to [...]

We believe giving students the power of media access creates engagement; with our Media Amplification Program, students now can interact with 12,000 readers in their community and get real time feedback no classroom can provide. And with the assistance and oversight of their instructors, this facility makes their study of journalism instantly practical. We have [...]

At Journalism That Matters conference  at the University of Denver this week, one of our missions was to support the journalism of inclusion: how to get more youth and minorities easy and instant access to media distribution. We believe journalism education’s role is to support the massive expansion of a citizen journalist class that will be far more [...]

Update: We’re now getting local TV newscasters and journalists to add city hashtags to their best community tweets so we retweet them in real time. Why TV? Newscasters are visible hubs of our communities, they often lend their crowd appeal to events and causes. They thrive on social media presence (think of it as ratings), [...]