As a fellow at @typemediacenter.org, I'm proud to announce that @typeinvestigations.org was selected by Press Forward to expand their Springboard Project for local newsrooms serving historically marginalized communities. Learn more: pressforward.news/infrastructure25 #PressForward

Press Forward invests $22.7 mi...
EDITORIAL: BINJ AWARDED $100K PRESS FORWARD #GRANT. With readers’ support, funds from a new national #funding initiative may help us “achieve escape velocity” at last. https://horizonmass.news/2024/10/16/editorial-binj-awarded-100k-press-forward-grant/ #pressforward #journalism #nonprofit @BINJreports
EDITORIAL: BINJ AWARDED $100K PRESS FORWARD GRANT

With readers’ support, funds from a new national funding initiative may help us “achieve escape velocity” at last

HorizonMass

PressForward é um plugin gratuito que fornece um fluxo de trabalho editorial para a construção de centros de conteúdo usando a plataforma de publicação na web WordPress. Ele foi desenvolvido pelo Centro Roy Rosenzweig de História e Novas Mídias para blogueiros e equipes editoriais que desejam reunir, organizar e publicar conteúdo de diversas fontes na web aberta.

https://pressforward.org/

#opensource #pesquisa #educacao #tecnologia #digitalscholar #zotero #pressforward

PressForward

At #ISOJ24, I'm hearing John Palfrey speaking about #PressForward for the first time. He's preaching! The message is direct: more money for local journalism from many sources for the sake of democracy.

Richard Baxter, English Puritan leader, relates evangelization and good works. Don’t delay relief of the drowning or famishing. First relieve, and then afterwards, instruct.

How does this play out today? Some may find evangelization gauche. But conservatives meanwhile resent aid given to a needy person if there were no return on investment, with a conversion. But does the resentment become the instruction as well?

#christian #theologicalthreads #postmillennial #pressforward #fundraiser

Importing Mastodon posts into your WordPress-database

Being an old-school blogger (going back to 2001, this site going back to 2003) has advantages and disadvantages. A 20-year old blog means having a lot of stuff at one place online. It also means a lot of broken links and images in the archives.

The recent developments at Twitter have made me move to mostly Mastodon (although I’m trying Bluesky as well). Because the character-limit on Mastodon […]

https://www.filmvanalledag.nl/2023/11/18/importing-mastodon-posts-into-your-wordpress-database/
Importing Mastodon posts into your WordPress-database – filmvanalledag

The MacArthur Foundation is committing $500 mil. to #localNews!
#PressForward.news

"Closing longstanding inequalities and supporting journalism coverage and practice"
(Archewell is Harry and Meghan's foundation)
#donate to match
https://www.pressforward.news/funding-opportunities/

Funding Opportunities | Press Forward

Opportunities to apply for Press Forward funding and share your organization’s mission with funders will be shared in 2024.

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How Philadelphia is helping lead a national movement to support local journalism and democracy

A coalition of 22 foundations will invest a half billion dollars to support local news. It is a national movement that Philadelphia helped inspire and that we should embrace, Jim Friedlich writes.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Some great news today: Introducing #PressForward: A national initiative by a coalition of foundations to inform and engage communities by bolstering local news.

This initiative is elevating local journalism and bridging gaps in newsrooms by injecting over $500M dollars.

Learn more👇: https://macfound.org/press/press-releases/press-forward-will-award-more-than-500-million-to-revitalize-local-news

#local journalism
#Journalism
#press

Press Forward Will Award More Than $500 Million to Revitalize Local News

It's May and I am poking around on my #WordPress site. I have discovered a new #plugin called #PressForward. It "provides an editorial workflow for content aggregation and curation within the WordPress dashboard." Does anyone have experience with it?