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Heres what we know about how Indiana teachers can receive the COVID-19 vaccine thanks to a new federal program at Kroger, Meijer and Walmart.

Nearly one-fifth of the states teachers are 55 or older, making them eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine.

The limitations of the ‘news ecosystem’ metaphor Metaphors are useful, until they’re not. A few years ago, I taught basic ecology to preschool students, using a tarp as a teaching tool. I would help a group of small children gather on the blue piece of plastic, explaining that each child represented an animal and that the confines of the blue plastic square represented their home. Over time, I would fold the tarp in halves as the “ecosystem” deteriorated, narrating a series of imagine...

Community Content 2 Dale Ave., Gloucester -- 978-281-9763 -- http://sawyerfreelibrary.org. The Sawyer Free Library is now open for select onsite services, six days a week, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and Thursdays from noon to 7 p.m. Visitors should keep visits to 30 minutes or less. The library has implemented extensive preventative measures and controls to keep staff and patrons as safe as possible. All staff and visitors must wear masks, practice physical distancing and...

Rally For Rhyan Pledge Drive, Time to settle up! If you signed up to pledge, here’s the what and how! Share this story twitter.com/MizzouHoops Rally For Rhyan was a success at Mizzou Arena yesterday. Mizzou dropped their first game in the series, but played well down the stretch in forcing overtime. They nearly clipped the Arkansas Razorbacks despite missing Jeremiah Tilmon. You can read the Study Hall here. But despite not being able to have a full house, Mizzou still raised some good money...

Amanda Richardson talks the path to nonprofit news in New Jersey Last week, the Corporation for New Jersey Local Media announced that the New Jersey Hills Media Group had committed to a partnership to convert all fourteen of the chain’s newspapers to non-profit ownership. If the transition is successful, New Jersey Hills Media Group will be the largest nonprofit weekly newspaper chain in the country.  CJR spoke to Amanda Richardson, executive director of the Corporation for New Jersey Local ...

What I’ve learned in nine months of covering the journalism crisis When I began writing this newsletter, in June, I imagined the local journalism crisis as a graph with a simple line, rising and falling with each wave of cuts, marking how the world of news was getting worse or getting better. After nine months of reporting, I’ve realized it’s not that simple. It’s not just about what the numbers mean for those who were laid off or furloughed, but sometimes, how the newsroom that is left...

(Alternate caption: When you’re told the project pays in “exposure.”) I wrote a piece about wool mittens in November, and a few days before the zine was set to launch, another pair of wool mittens went viral. AFP photographer Brendan Smialowski snapped an image of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders sitting on a folding chair at President Biden’s inauguration. The Senator’s arms and legs were crossed, placing his wool mittens front and center. It’s not a particularly st...

In Vermont, one hyperlocal newsroom aims to fill a void Record ceased publication at the end of March, Waterbury, Vermont, was on its way to becoming another news desert. At the time, Lisa Scagliotti—a longtime Waterbury resident who used to work as managing editor of two of the Record’s sister weeklies—was running a journalism internship program at the University of Vermont: training students, offering editing and feedback, and helping aspiring journalists place work in local publicati...

“If voters aren’t listening, then what are we doing here?” A Q&A with Pat Rynard On January 4, political news site  Iowa Starting Line announced it was going on hiatus until further notice. “Good journalism should hold the powerful accountable, but it should do so in reality, not just theory,” Pat Rynard, founder and managing editor, wrote. “And if voters aren’t listening to it, then what are we doing here?” Rynard launched Iowa Starting Line in 2015 as a left-leaning news bl...