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      • How the Austin Monitor uses 'Game Nights' to engage readers
      • How BINJ turned a photo essay into a major event and more
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engaging communities

PLANNING A POP-UP NEWSROOM

READ: How a pop-up newsroom helped a Boston news nonprofit connect with readers (Nieman Lab)

THROWING CREATIVE ENGAGEMENT EVENTS

CASE STUDY: How the Austin Monitor uses 'Game Nights' to engage readers

EVENT IDEA: BINJ hosted a well-attended forum titled 'Crisis in the Creative Professions' that brought together creatives from various mediums for a state of the union discussion

A FEATURE, AN ART SHOW, AND AN UNDERWRITER: How BINJ turned a photo essay into a major event and more

HOSTING: A community media day in your area

WORKING WITH YOUTH MEDIA

EXAMPLE: A visual exploration of Boston’s Roxbury and Chinatown neighborhoods

READ: Meet the Students from the Most Important School You've Never Heard Of

TURNING ENGAGEMENT INTO CONTENT

READ: BINJ Reporter Alejandro Ramirez wrote the feature 'Internally Bleeding' about a Vietnam veteran and former Boston firefighter who we met at a pop-up newsroom

READ: Turning Dialogue into Reported Content

IN PRACTICE: BINJ Throws a Holiday Engagement Carnival

EXAMPLE: A Three-Part BINJ Series About Aging Prisoners with Life Sentences Written By A Massachusetts Department of Correction Inmate

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