Nearly 40% of people in Chicago said in a recent study that they lacked information on their neighborhoods and how to get involved in civic life. Chicago Public Media decided to try something new to solve this gap.
They plan to launch chicago.com this fall, which will feature some news stories from WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times. The ultimate goal, though, is to design a space to help people connect with each other. They’ll measure how the experiment is working via surveys and community focus groups.
Creative, boundary-blurring projects like this allow newsrooms to connect with communities in ways that help them increase their reach — and see firsthand how their journalism is making a difference.
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