Your Newsroom, At Your Library
A platform for community-driven journalism rooted in the most trusted public spaces in America. Libraries become newsrooms where residents, librarians, and journalists co-create the stories that matter.
Active Newsrooms
East Los Angeles
0 stories · 0 contributors
Rudy Lozano
1 stories · 1 contributors
Schomburg Center
2 stories · 2 contributors
Sunset Park
6 stories · 6 contributors
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How It Works
Invite
Create welcoming entry points through personal outreach, multilingual materials, and community events. Story dinners, open hours, flyers in laundromats.
Listen
Story Circles bring residents together for facilitated conversations. Community mapping uncovers what matters. The topics come from the community, not a newsroom.
Co-Create
Transform community insights into stories, bulletins, and resources. Bilingual where needed. Published here and distributed through the library network.
- I Have an Idea to Open 16,000 Newsrooms in the U.S. — Terry Parris Jr., JSK Fellowship at Stanford
- The Library Newsroom Project — librarynewsroom.com
- About Terry Parris Jr. — background, past projects, and methodology
Built to Scale
There are 16,000 public libraries in the United States. Each one is a trusted community space, open to everyone. This platform is designed so that any library can launch its own newsroom in minutes — with its own contributors, stories, story circles, and community bulletins. One platform. Thousands of local voices.