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THE NEWSROOM COLLECTIVE

A US-wide community of local newsrooms using video to enhance journalistic impact, expand audiences, and increase revenue. Powered by Knight Foundation.

About the Newsroom Collective

Launching December, 2024

Made possible by Knight Foundation, in alignment with Press Forward, VC’s Newsroom Collective supports local newsrooms across the United States with training, tools, and talent to expand audience engagement, diversify revenue streams, and enhance journalistic impact through video.


Join the Newsroom Collective to:

  • Expand your audience and reach

  • Empower your editorial teams with video journalism skills

  • Bring your reportage to younger generations

  • Develop new revenue streams

  • Be part of industry community gatherings

  • Set up your newsroom for success in a rapidly changing, visual-first media landscape.


Newsroom Collective benefits include access to:

  • Monthly collaborative strategy- and skill-sharing sessions

  • A global community of video journalists, nonfiction video creators, and fellow local news organizations

  • Resources and guides

  • Mentorship and networking

  • Access to in-person local industry gatherings

Additional Support: Newsroom Collective members are also eligible to apply to join the Newsroom Collective’s Video Incubator

The Newsroom Collective's

Video Incubator

Within the Newsroom Collective, the Video Incubator empowers a select number of US newsrooms with the tools, insights, and deep community to sustainably integrate video into their digital content strategies. In this six-month cohort, newsroom teams learn to:

  • Improve the quality of multi-platform video storytelling

  • Efficiently increase short-form video production

  • Analyze and grow audience engagement

  • Build a sustainable video strategy towards monetization

The Video Incubator’s 2024-25 cohort brings together a mix of eight news outlets of different sizes, team dynamics, and communities served; together, they share learnings, experiment, and improve their video strategies.

Applications for the 2024/5 Video Incubator are currently closed.

Why Video?

Video is the most powerful tool we have to engage and inform; it delivers authentic, intimate, and emotionally captivating stories that go beyond images and words.

As your newsroom explores new ways to amplify your stories and advance local journalism in the digital age, video is an unmatched medium for expanding your audience and reaching the communities you serve. Almost half of all U.S. consumers watch online videos daily, and young people primarily get their news through video. It’s undeniably the present and, inevitably, the future.

But bringing video into your newsroom requires a unique approach: it can be costly, technically nuanced, and intimidating to start — or expand. We're here to help you confidently streamline the process and find solutions through a community ecosystem of support.

The Newsroom Collective is a strategic advisor, a talent finder, and newsroom-to-newsroom support system. Along with your fellow newsrooms from across the US, join the community. Join the movement.

“The Video Consortium is best in class when it comes to understanding how to produce compelling video journalism and documentary film in partnership with local newsrooms, and we are thrilled to support an expansion of their work."

— Duc Luu, Director of Sustainability Initiatives/Journalism, Knight Foundation

Above photos: VC member Caitlin O'Rourke in action, Alex Clark live-streaming behind the scenes, moments from VC members presenting work at local hub gatherings, by Bellyfire Productions; a video journalist filming by Jovaughn Stephens.