NJ PBS is hiring a business operations manager to support the station’s budgets, grant accounts, vendors and day-to-day operations. Full time in Montclair, NJ. Salary: $66,067.40–$85,903.70 annually. Qualifications and application link below.

Matt Kadosh’s Montclair Local guide to the Oct. 11 Portal Bridge cutover covers RerouteNJ and three checks for riders. Putting ticket rules beside station and transfer details helps people plan the whole trip. Weekday and weekend requirements differ.

We turned Carrie Brown’s advice into a quick checklist for your feed. Look for these habits over time, then check important claims elsewhere. The full interview is in the quoted thread.

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Carrie Brown offers concrete trust signals for local news influencers: explained sources, disclosed paid relationships and responses to corrections. Montclair’s Faculty Voices feature draws on our NJ influencers study. Reliability becomes visible through habits repeated over time.

Carrie Brown offers concrete trust signals for local news influencers: explained sources, disclosed paid relationships and responses to corrections. Montclair’s Faculty Voices feature draws on our NJ influencers study. Reliability becomes visible through habits repeated over time.

News 12's Tom Krosnowski spoke with our Joe Amditis about RerouteNJ ahead of the Oct. 11 Portal Bridge cutover. His point: A familiar rail trip can become an unfamiliar transfer at Hoboken. The tool maps how the changes affect a commute.

Tomorrow's AI for editing webinar compares free and paid tools using sample text. Tom Shroder will show how to evaluate suggestions and decide what still needs a human editor. Join us online Oct. 7, 2–3:30 p.m. EDT. Free; registration below.

Korea Daily's coverage of our Sept. 23 aging briefing connects health care to housing and transportation. Cathy Rowe's example is concrete: A medical appointment is only accessible if an older resident who no longer drives can reach it.

🌈 At #IJWeek, we have several hands-on workshops for journalists! 🗺️ Mapping analysis with QGIS 🔎 Search in the age of AI 🎧 How sound is reshaping investigations 🎙️ Investigative podcast workshop. Register here ⬇️ https://twp.ai/9ObvuN 1/3

Visualizing heat 🔥 Bologna photographer @michelelapini.bsky.social took pictures with his iPhone and a thermal sensor to document temperatures in homes, offices, and public spaces this summer to highlight the invisible injustice of extreme heat. buff.ly/eWXZa5f

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Thermal imaging shows how people experience scorching heat varies depending on their circumstance.

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@njpbs.org is hiring a Reporter, Trenton/Central Jersey. It asks for at least three years of video reporting, including field reporting and producing clips and packages. Full time in Montclair, $80,000-$95,000 annually.

If you're a reporter or editor who still does your own line editing, this one's for you. On Oct 7 we walk through a working process for running drafts past ChatGPT and Claude, where they help and where to trust your own ear instead.

Creators we interviewed for our New Jersey news-influencer study described unstable income. IIJ’s Jan. 22 webinar brings together independent publishers to discuss subscriptions, sponsorships, and partnerships that fund their reporting.

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Investigative journalist Monique Madan broke critical reporting on ICE and immigrant detention on her own newsletter, Two Can Be True. Join us on Jan. 22 to learn how she’s leveraged newsroom partnerships to earn revenue as an independent. Register here: bit.ly/4y4Lvyu

Governor Mikie Sherrill on Dale Caldwell's investigation and resignation: "I cannot have anyone in the organization routinely ignoring ethics rules or harassing staff." Catch more of our interview at njpbs.org

New Jersey's Civic Information Consortium didn't appear out of nowhere. State Sen. Vin Gopal traces it to years of advocacy to grow local news in the state — work he credits to our team here at the Center and the Dodge Foundation.

Most advice about AI and editing stops at "be careful." Our Oct 7 webinar goes further: a working process for running your drafts through ChatGPT and Claude, where they actually help, and where you should trust your own ear over the machine.

Prachi Singh hadn't written code in seven years. Now she's building features on India Currents with AI: a real-or-fake headline game, landing pages, a newsletter page. Our Joe Amditis coached her, and his rule stuck — keep a change log so you can roll back the moment the AI goes sideways.

Tom Shroder spent years editing other people's writing at the Washington Post Magazine. On Oct 7 he's running a webinar on how he uses AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude as an editing partner, and where he still trusts a human over the machine.

Learn how journalists and news organizations are building cooperative models that strengthen independent media. Wednesday's free webinar covers ownership, governance, and real examples. Speakers from Defector, Pittsburgh Progress, and more. 9/30, 10 AM ET #journalism

Boardwalk, a new CMS for public media stations, from the @centerforcooperativemedia.org. Coming soon 👀

Join us for a 1-hr webinar on media co-ops — what they are, who they serve, and how to start one. We'll hear from Defector, Pittsburgh Progress, and more. Wed 9/30, 10am ET, free online. #journalism

Last call: our press briefing on aging in New Jersey is tomorrow. If you cover health, caregiving or older residents, this hour gives you sources and context, plus time for your questions. Sept. 23, 2 p.m. ET, online, free.

Terry Parris Jr. thinks a neighborhood can make its own news inside its public library. Nieman Lab reported on where that idea goes next, and one stop is right here in New Jersey, where we're helping build a pilot across three library branches.

Tomorrow we're bringing four collaboratives together to answer the same question four ways: how do you actually work with student journalists? Heather May, Kathy Lefler, Ray Schmitt and Manny Garcia share what's worked for them. Sept. 22, 1 p.m. ET, online, free.

If your beat touches health, aging or caregiving in New Jersey, this briefing is for you. We're giving reporters context and sources for covering an aging state: Medicare and elder-care changes, AI scams targeting seniors, and the Master Plan on Aging. Sept. 23, online, free.

Democracy Days started here at CCM in 2022, asking newsrooms to send us the reporting that helps democracy hold together. Three years on, the Media and Democracy Project has taken the idea and built its own Democracy Day roundup of local journalism doing exactly that.

Student journalists can carry real reporting for a collaborative when the partnership is built right. Four newsrooms have done it, and next Tuesday they're walking us through how: the mentoring, the fresh eyes, and the trust it takes to make it work.

Spent a few years in nonprofit fundraising or donor relations? NJ PBS has a job worth a look. It's hiring a membership manager to grow and keep the public TV network's donor base. Full time in Montclair, $76,486.40-$84,131.83. @njpbs.org

A press briefing for New Jersey reporters on Sep 23: what to know when you're covering an aging state. Changes to Medicare and elder care, AI-driven scams that target seniors, the Master Plan on Aging, and how communities are adapting so people can age well at home.

Trusting News has spent a decade on one stubborn problem: people don't automatically believe journalists, and telling them to won't fix it. Joy Mayer founded the project in 2016. She sat down with us to talk about trust, AI and what still needs to change.

A public library card could soon come with a byline. In New Jersey we're working with the Library Newsroom Project on a one-year pilot in three library branches, where residents report and publish local news themselves. $68,000, three towns, one experiment. 1/3