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We’re seeking newsrooms, scientists and community partners for the Appalachia Civic Science Media Collaborative. Community listening will help shape shared work on extreme weather and public health across Central and Southern Appalachia.

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42 students from eight universities helped the Florida Election Reporting Partnership cover the midterms. The project began with August school board races and built training into the reporting. Marian Chia-Ming Liu explains how it worked in CCM’s new Q&A.

Original geometric illustration of a red pencil resting diagonally across a schematic news page on a warm cream background. Text: “Florida newsrooms brought students into election coverage. The Florida Election Reporting Partnership began with August’s school board races.” The page is illustrative, not a screenshot of actual reporting.

Original geometric illustration of an open book with a red bookmark and a large red pencil. Text: “The partnership built training into the reporting. That included ethics, reporting standards and research on candidates.” The book is symbolic, not an actual training manual.

Forty-two small red pencil illustrations, arranged in six rows of seven, represent the student reporters. Text: “By the midterms, 42 students were reporting. They came from eight universities.” The arrangement does not show how students were distributed among universities.

Center for Cooperative Media @CenterCoopMedia Nov 5

From CCM’s 2025 archive: a six-week home search led into a Wichita investigation of two decades of building permits. The story connects the construction slowdown to interviews with builders.
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From the archives, 2025. Six weeks to find a home in Wichita. That was Natalie and Alex Beauchamp’s experience in a tight housing market. An original schematic illustration places a magnifying glass over a house and graph paper. It does not depict the Beauchamps’ actual home.

To understand why, reporters turned to records. The Wichita Journalism Collaborative analyzed 20 years of building permits. Three overlapping illustrated permit forms, each marked with a house symbol, sit on graph paper. They are schematic records, not document reproductions.

If the 2004 pace had held: about 17,000 more homes. Single-family construction in 2005–2024. Two horizontal bars share a zero baseline and scale: 29,060 at the 2004 pace and 11,907 in the published data. The difference is 17,153, rounded to about 17,000. Source credit: Wichita Journalism Collaborative, 2025. This is a conditional construction comparison, not a total housing-shortage estimate.

Center for Cooperative Media @CenterCoopMedia Nov 4

Kimi Yoshino on The Baltimore Banner’s partnerships, from CCM’s 2025 archive.

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A schematic isometric newsroom desk holds a laptop and paper, with a newspaper display and a radio on a pale blue platform. Visible text: From the archives · 2025 The Baltimore Banner wanted to reach beyond its paywall. Kimi Yoshino, then editor in chief, explained how in CCM’s 2025 Q&A.

Center for Cooperative Media @CenterCoopMedia Nov 3

Gery Vereau launched Presencia in Paterson, then handled much of its delivery himself. In our August 2026 story, he described taking copies to about 20 New Jersey cities, sometimes by bus.

Reporting by Anthony Advincula.

Illustrated archive card on an ivory background. Text: “From the archives · August 2026. A Spanish-language paper launched in Paterson. Gery Vereau started Presencia in April 2026.” A stack of newspapers marked “Presencia” lies flat on a tabletop. The newspaper is a schematic illustration, not a reproduction of an actual issue.

Text: “Vereau delivered copies to local businesses. The route included groceries, shops and restaurants around New Jersey.” A schematic neighborhood grocery has a red-and-ivory awning, stocked shelves and a produce tray. An illustrated newspaper marked “Presencia” rests in a supported display on the counter. This is not a depiction of a particular store or newspaper issue.

Text: “Some deliveries happened by bus. Vereau also rented a vehicle to distribute the paper.” A side-view illustration shows a generic cream-colored bus with a red stripe and blue windows. It does not depict a particular vehicle or transit operator.