Community Innovation News: Exchanging Ideas for Building Communities

In launching Community Innovation News, the editors and writers are building on experience gained at The American News Service, which over its five-year lifespan emphasized a solutions approach to news reporting and focussed on innovations to social problems. Here are some reactions to this work:

"It can be next to impossible to find and tell the real stories of our society. The American News Service provides an invaluable service." Janet S. Domenitz, Executive Director, MASSPIRG (Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group).

"I've tried all the major media [but] The American News Service has given us the widest coverage since it came off the wire to 600 outlets…finally I was able to interest big time media with this urgent and vital issue of (responses to) gang violence...." Ella Seneres, Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos and National Coalition of Barrios Unidos.

The "exposure...has benefited us in several ways. ...The article generated new calls to our National Institute for Community Schools for both information and visits. Since the story was released, we have received more visits from more states than last year. ...For us, this means thousands more children across the country may benefit from new school environments that better support learning." Lisa Synoradzki, Asst. Director, National Institute for Community Schools.

"You were the news service that broke this issue. You were the catalyst for speeding things up, and getting everyone talking about it." Mary Hood of the National Center for Women & Policing, responding to the story, "Where Does Victim Turn When Abuser is a Police Officer?" The story led to the first nationwide conference on the issue.

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