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Abstract
This research examines the impact of One River, Many Stories, a community storytelling project designed to disrupt relationships between news organizations and their audiences. Informed by scholarship on the changing role of journalists as facilitators rather than gatekeepers of public discourse, community engagement methods were used to study this two-year storytelling project. Ripple Effects Mapping methods measured its impact. Findings reveal that traditional news media deviated little from established journalism routines while citizen participation was diverse and expansive.
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1 Population estimates from 2015 put the city slightly over 86,000 people with a median annual income of approximately $45,000.
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Funding
The One River, Many Stories community storytelling project was funded in part by the Knight Foundation Fund of the Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation.