Nico Colombant, University of Nevada, Reno
CCN Faculty Champion
Center for Community News
BIO
Nico Colombant, a Senior Lecturer of Digital Media and Cross-Cultural Reporting at the University of Nevada, Reno, coordinates the Our Town Reno hyperlocal multimedia community collective social media and journalism hybrid initiative, with student reporting, which focuses on residents struggling with rising costs, green initiatives, volunteers doing good, mutual aid, citizen concerns, investigations on local abuses of power, the treatment of the unhoused and the disappearance of public space.
The initiative partners with local media and pushes its own regular daily content onto social media so that student reporting can be seen, heard, read and discussed, with 24k followers on Instagram, 14k on Facebook, and weekly TikTok videos, some of them getting hundreds of thousands of views. Our Town Reno holds a yearly free community event with the publication of a zine and the showing of original videos, including occasionally a new full length documentary.
Bio
Nico Colombant, a Senior Lecturer of Digital Media and Cross-Cultural Reporting at the University of Nevada, Reno, coordinates the Our Town Reno hyperlocal multimedia community collective social media and journalism hybrid initiative, with student reporting, which focuses on residents struggling with rising costs, green initiatives, volunteers doing good, mutual aid, citizen concerns, investigations on local abuses of power, the treatment of the unhoused and the disappearance of public space.
The initiative partners with local media and pushes its own regular daily content onto social media so that student reporting can be seen, heard, read and discussed, with 24k followers on Instagram, 14k on Facebook, and weekly TikTok videos, some of them getting hundreds of thousands of views. Our Town Reno holds a yearly free community event with the publication of a zine and the showing of original videos, including occasionally a new full length documentary.