FJP Community Network Grant Winner: The Bangor Daily News

Involve the community in discussions about climate problems across the local economy through an event series that will shape Daily News coverage.

$25,000

The Bangor Daily News is the only daily newspaper serving a chunk of Maine twice the size of Massachusetts, with a population of around 1 million. Most of our readership lives within 50 miles of the Gulf of Maine, which is warming faster than 99% of the world's bodies of water. We're looking for funding to support a set of climate change round-table events that we will use to convene experts from the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute with community members and hyperlocal subject matter experts. As mediators between experts and local stakeholders, we'll define climate problems faced by several typologies of the local economy. These round-tables will help shape our coverage of climate issues over the coming years.

Our outputs will be articles leading to these events and community action plans after them. We will build community by calling attention to threatened ways of life, helping to find solutions, and forging relationships between the communities we cover and world-class experts who stand ready to work with us. Climate coverage is tough to fund, and we need Facebook's help. We will publish content that results from these round-table discussions under a Creative Commons license which will allow others to republish freely with citation.

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