Convening video leaders from newsrooms across America to share knowledge and drive growth. Powered by Knight Foundation.
Bringing newsroom leaders and creatives together for monthly community calls to share strategic insights on video that inform audiences and meet the bottom line.
Monthly convenings are free for VC Gold members.
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Looking to reach younger audiences? Drive growth through video? Bring your stories to life? Show your readers who your journalists actually are? Get your reporting on social feeds — and get people to stop scrolling? Start a video podcast? Create quality video? Pair longform with short documentaries? We’ve got you.
Video Consortium works with nonprofit, independent, and digital-first newsrooms to help them expand their audience, reportage, and efficacy through video. Sliding scale pricing is based on newsroom size and budget.
— Duc Luu, Director of Sustainability Initiatives/Journalism, Knight Foundation
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.
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 our movement.