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WBGO Community Engagement Reporter Brit Harley Helps Facilitate Virtual Workshop on Newark

Workshop
Center for Cooperative Media

WBGO Community Engagement Reporter Brit Harley will be a facilitator for today's virtual conference titled Assessing Newark's Information Needs and Filling the Gap, presented by the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University.

Newark media colleagues and key community leaders are gathering to learn about information needs and how they can collaboratively meet them better.  

The workshop will include an interactive discussion about critical information needs and the information ecosystem in Newark, as well as an invitation to participate in a city-wide information needs assessment and follow-up grant opportunity.

The post workshiop grant opportunity, made possible with support from the Nicholson Foundation and the Victoria Foundation, will ONLY be open to workshop participants.

The event from 9am to noon will be hosted via Zoom conference and facilitated in part by Fiona Morgan of Branchhead Consulting and Stefanie Murrary of the Center for Cooperative Media.

Doug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998 and has taken his department to new heights in coverage and recognition. Doug and his staff have received more than 250 awards from organizations like PRNDI (now PMJA), AP, New York Association of Black Journalists, Garden State Association of Black Journalists and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.