First Person Charlottesville is gaining momentum!
Charlottesville Inclusive Media’s collaborative project to raise up the voices of community members was featured at the American Press Institute Local News Summit on Opinion, Civic Discourse and Sustainability in April, as a new model for local opinion pages. We are reimagining local opinion pages by focusing on lived experiences, rather than just opinions.
We’re also a finalist for 2023 The Next Challenge for Media and Journalism Future of News contest! It’s an award to “a startup pioneering new ways to report the news and provide communities with fact-based insight, analysis, and information” that could help supercharge our work. It’s a program of Glen Nelson Center at American Public Media Group which identifies, elevates and invests in groundbreaking media ventures.
One part of the contest is about you, the public! A $10,000 award will go to the finalist in each division with the most votes! Vote for Charlottesville Inclusive Media here! You will be able to vote after a quick verification using your mobile phone number (which is not stored or shared by the organizers).
Want to learn more about this powerful partnership? Sarad Davenport of Vinegar Hill Magazine, Charles Lewis of In My Humble Opinion, and Angilee Shah of Charlottesville Tomorrow will talk about Charlottesville Inclusive Media’s origins, how the partnership is seeking to change the news ecosystem of central Virginia, and the first year of First Person Charlottesville at the Collaborative Media Summit in Washington, D.C. in June — and it will be streamed live!
Here’s where you can see the presentation at 10 a.m. ET on Wednesday, June 7.
Here’s the latest from First Person Charlottesville
With the season’s first snow came hateful speech for this Charlottesville resident
Brianna Patten writes about why she doesn’t trust the institutions meant to protect us — and what she worries about for the future.
Listen: She left Yogaville because she says it was a toxic environment
In this First Person Charlottesville podcast episode, former Yogaville resident Brianna Patten speaks up — and helps others do the same.
Want to tell your own First Person story? Join Charlottesville Inclusive Media for an evening community workshop
Space is limited for the free Nov. 19 event in Charlottesville, so please RSVP if you’d like to attend.
The inaugural Trans Futures Conference is coming to Charlottesville. Charley Burton explains why this is the right place to host it
We need a community where Black, white, brown, non-binary, trans masculine, trans feminine and allies come together for a common cause, writes Burton.
Vinegar Hill: After nearly 60 years, UVA shutters college prep program for first-generation college students in Charlottesville
“It showed a young Black man from Charlottesville that higher education wasn’t just a possibility, but a birthright,” Marquan Jones writes in Vinegar Hill Magazine.
More local News
Charlottesville parents, teachers and activists ask for revote on school resource officers
The School Board has moved ahead with an agreement with the Charlottesville Police Department, but said it will devote an April work session to ‘further discussion’ of the matter.
After two years without independent counsel, Charlottesville’s police oversight board has an attorney to represent its interests to the city
New counsel will review suggested ordinance changes that will shape the Board’s role before a planned meeting with City Council.
Charlottesville city officials promise not to displace unhoused community members during an encampment cleanup effort this week
Citing public health, safety and environmental concerns, city staff and a local landscaping company will clean up trash and install portable toilets and sharps disposal containers at the site Tuesday, March 24 and Wednesday, March 25.
In Orange and Louisa, residents and public officials voice concerns over proposed Valley Link transmission line
Residents are speaking out about potential negative impacts on homes and farmland, and many local governments are finding their influence is limited, as the fate of the project rests with state regulators.
The Prolyfyck crew is growing — in the next 20 years, its leader wants to show up for the neighborhoods where they run
James “Littlez” Dowell co-founded Prolyfyck Run Creww as a way to bring communities together through fitness. But now it’s so much more.
