Journalism
Public Interest Partners harnesses the collaborative and entrepreneurial power of the pen through data journalism and solutions storytelling. The process can form the connective media tissue of philanthropy infrastructure organizations and their respective nonprofit, education and industry partners. The Council on Foundations and the Center for Public Interest Communications at the University of Florida have published an insightful study on storytelling, trust and philanthropy. https://cof.org/sites/default/files/documents/files/private/Philanthropys-New-Voice-Building-Trust-With-Deeper-Stories-and-Clear-Language.pdf
We are refining nonprofit human resources data, creating original content and developing solutions stories that illuminate the processes, outcomes and social impact of service science and innovation since the 2010 publication of "Empowering Rural America - A New Model Emerges". The article includes several themes including a focus on Service Science and the measures taken to ensure digital equity through broadband deployment in Franklin County, Virginia. One in three people globally has no access to the Internet. Without internet access, billions of people are without the critical public goods and services required to enable the achievement of the UN Sustainability Goals.
Service Science and Innovation offer robust frameworks for re-envisioning nonprofit news media as a co-created, technology-enabled public service ecosystem. By adopting service-dominant logic, media organizations can move from transactional models toward relational, participatory and sustainable modes of value creation. This transformation not only strengthens the economic viability of local journalism but also revitalizes its democratic function of reconnecting communities through collaborative, trust-based information services.
In the context of local news media, this perspective reframes journalism not as the production of content for consumption but as an ongoing process of value co-creation between journalists and their communities. Audiences contribute ideas, data and feedback; journalists transform and interpret this information and together they generate social, cultural, and civic value. This relational understanding aligns naturally with the public service mission of journalism.
