CCN Announcements
UVM Launches Nationwide Effort to Grow Local News Reporting at Colleges Across the U.S.
New CCN Study: Student-Reported Stories Were Published Nearly 12,000 Times Last Year, Reaching Potentially 25 Million Readers
Meet CCN's 2024 Faculty Champions
The impact of student reporting
Over 1300 colleges and universities are located in or near counties defined as news deserts by Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. What is the relationship of news deserts to college campuses? Explore our new maps to learn more about how universities can support local news.
Visualizing the Power of Universities: Maps & News Desert Solutions
CCN research found that 2,000 student reporters in university-led programs published more than 10,000 stories in local news outlets last year. Check out our maps, research, and reports.
National Community News Wire
Reporting from across the U.S. from the next generation of great journalists. Our mission is to grow and support news-academic partnerships. In service of that mission, this site celebrates the superlative community reporting that college students are producing today.
Latest Research
Student-Reported Stories Were Published Nearly 12,000 Times Last Year, Reaching Potentially 25 Million Readers
A new study from the Center for Community News at UVM demonstrates the extraordinary reach and impact of university-led local news reporting.
Faculty Profile
John Tomasic
A prolific journalist in his own right, John Tomasic works to support student journalists as an artist-in-residence and faculty leader of two experiential journalism programs at the University of Washington.
