America Amplified National Listening Sessions
America Amplified brought together eight public radio collaborations to host and curate small-group conversations on COVID-19 and the 2020 election, helping reporters ground their coverage in underheard community voices.
Listen in to a journalist sharing their concerns around lacking mental health support.
Explore emergent themes from across conversations and the real voices that speak to them.
Read on to learn more about how Cortico supported the America Amplified National Listening Sessions.
“Our journalists learning that facilitation skill was huge for us because it helped put community engagement in practice and supported a shift from traditional reporting towards really connecting with communities.”
Jennifer Tufts, Project Manager, America Amplified
America Amplified, a partnership powered by the National Corporation for Public Broadcasting, connected eight public radio collaborations from across the US in an effort to gather underheard voices on COVID-19 and the 2020 election.
Cortico trained local reporters to facilitate and curate conversations about these critical issues, working with staff from Connecta Arizona (for Spanish language conversations), KOSU, the NPR affiliate in Oklahoma and Mountain West News Bureau for conversations about rural communities, and WABE in Atlanta, which sponsored conversations with a South Asian women’s group.
Through the partnership, voices from across the country were featured in a national talk show, informed local elections, and positioned regional media as a critical community convener.
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