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What is Community Partner Journalism? Community Partner Journalism encourages newspapers to reach out to organizations that supply content and create more consistent, formatted profile offerings that those organizations can submit to get their news in the paper and online.
How does the CPJ program work? The program is aimed at partnering with groups such as hospitals and churches and chambers of commerce (groups that are always trying to get into the newspaper), providing those groups a form that they can fill out on a weekly basis that they send back to your
newsroom and that is anchored in a formatted position in your paper and on your site.
What’s the best way to get groups on board with this kind of project? It’s important for your newsroom to decide which of the CPJ possibilities (listed below) you want to offer in your newspaper. Once decided, customize the letter (featured in this section) and send it to the organization that you want to partner with, along with the prototype you will receive from the News & Interactive Division that showcases what the feature will look like. It’s important to agree to a consistent day and time that the form will be due and when and where it will run in your newspaper.
What are the newsroom expectations of CPJs? Daily newspapers will be expected to run a daily CPJ feature, and weekly publications — at a minimum — should run one a week.
What could a typical daily or weekly lineup look like?
Monday Newsmaker of the week profile on page A1, keyed to a local news event and generated by questions e-mailed to the newsmaker.
Tuesday Volunteer of the week on page A3.
Wednesday Health care profile of the week on page A3.
Thursday Business or businessperson profile of the week on page A3 or the business page.
Friday Church or religious leader profile of the week on page A3 or the religion page.
Weeklies could settle on one or two of these features or rotate several throughout the month.
What are the CPJ options? Here is a list of the templates available:
• Teacher or professor profile
• Public safety official profile
• Student profile
• Athlete profile
• Coach profile
• Event advance
• Event report
• House of faith profile
• Religious leader profile
• Health care worker profile
• Businessperson profile
• Meet your neighbor profile
• Meet a veteran profile
• 4-H profile
• Farmer profile
• Your pet profile
• Your religious mission
What is Community Partner Journalism? Community Partner Journalism encourages newspapers to reach out to organizations that supply content and create more consistent, formatted profile offerings that those organizations can submit to get their news in the paper and online.
How does the CPJ program work? The program is aimed at partnering with groups such as hospitals and churches and chambers of commerce (groups that are always trying to get into the newspaper), providing those groups a form that they can fill out on a weekly basis that they send back to your
newsroom and that is anchored in a formatted position in your paper and on your site.
What’s the best way to get groups on board with this kind of project? It’s important for your newsroom to decide which of the CPJ possibilities (listed below) you want to offer in your newspaper. Once decided, customize the letter (featured in this section) and send it to the organization that you want to partner with, along with the prototype you will receive from the News & Interactive Division that showcases what the feature will look like. It’s important to agree to a consistent day and time that the form will be due and when and where it will run in your newspaper.
What are the newsroom expectations of CPJs? Daily newspapers will be expected to run a daily CPJ feature, and weekly publications — at a minimum — should run one a week.
What could a typical daily or weekly lineup look like?
Monday Newsmaker of the week profile on page A1, keyed to a local news event and generated by questions e-mailed to the newsmaker.
Tuesday Volunteer of the week on page A3.
Wednesday Health care profile of the week on page A3.
Thursday Business or businessperson profile of the week on page A3 or the business page.
Friday Church or religious leader profile of the week on page A3 or the religion page.
Weeklies could settle on one or two of these features or rotate several throughout the month.
What are the CPJ options? Here is a list of the templates available:
• Teacher or professor profile
• Public safety official profile
• Student profile
• Athlete profile
• Coach profile
• Event advance
• Event report
• House of faith profile
• Religious leader profile
• Health care worker profile
• Businessperson profile
• Meet your neighbor profile
• Meet a veteran profile
• 4-H profile
• Farmer profile
• Your pet profile
• Your religious mission
