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Free virtual webinar: Thursday, August 13, 2pm ET / 1pm CT / 11am PT
Instructor: Madeleine Bair, Founder, El Tímpano
For the past five years, El Tímpano has developed a novel way to sustain and even expand its public-service journalism: civic partnerships. Through this model, nonprofits, government agencies, and other mission-aligned organizations contract El Tímpano to distribute vital information to “hard to reach” communities. El Tímpano began this work in 2020 with a $6,000 grant to support census outreach. In 2025, civic partnerships brought in approximately $350,000, making it El Tímpano’s second-largest source of revenue.
Join us for this session to learn how to:
- The basics of a civic partnerships strategy and how to determine if it’s right for you
- How to retain editorial independence while earning revenue from civic and nonprofit agencies
- The steps to develop a civic partnerships strategy in your organization
The event will be held online using Zoom. Please follow the instructions you receive after registering. Email if you do not receive a confirmation message or if you have any questions.
Instructor
Madeleine Bair is an award-winning journalist and media developer, and the founder of El Tímpano. Madeleine has been carrying a microphone in her backpack since she belonged to the Oakland bureau of the youth media organization, Children’s Express. As Senior Program Manager at the international nonprofit, WITNESS, she led a pioneering initiative dedicated to advancing the use of citizen video as a tool for human rights. Madeleine has taught radio production to young adults, worked on a morning show at Chicago Public Radio, and produced multimedia for Human Rights Watch. Her stories have appeared in the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Colorlines, and Orion, and broadcast on PRI’s The World and Independent Lens. She is an alumna of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford, the Media Transformation Challenge, and the CUNY Executive Program in News Innovation and Leadership.
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