Carolyn DiPaoloWhat I learned about connection at the API Local News Summit in Denver.
Carolyn, here. This month, I traveled to Colorado to learn how local news and civic leaders are working across generations.
Why it’s important: In the United States, we are living in the most age-diverse moment in history. A quarter of the population is under 20, a quarter over 60 and the rest in between, Marci Alboher of research organization CoGenerate told the American Press Institute Local News Summit in Denver.
- And yet, in many ways, we are more divided along age lines than ever.
Groups are stepping up to connect us.
- Denver-based social club Warm Cookies of the Revolution runs joy-filled events like Tax Day Carnival that explores different perspectives on taxation and post-election dance parties where everyone is welcome.
- The Now Kalamazoo newsroom in Michigan leads monthly Town Hall Field Trips to learn more about how local government works.
- The Bucket List Community Cafe, an online newsroom in Denver run by a retired news producer, employs mostly college students, who are reimagining community journalism.
What Stet News is doing: We coach and publish the work of FAU student journalists, cover change-makers across generations including the New Leaders Council, Love, Hope and Healing and CreativeMornings and we are building a partnership with a Palm Beach County high school. More on that soon.
The bottom line: Joel Engelhardt, Liz Capozzi and I are committed to a Stet News that reaches across all generations to help inform a growing and thriving Palm Beach County. We are grateful to have you with us.
Thank you to the American Press Institute for inviting me and for covering most of my expenses.
I am a co-founder, writer and editor for Stet News. I am also a former senior editor at The Palm Beach Post. For 20 years, I oversaw some of the most consequential stories published by the paper, including the “Corruption County” reporting project that led to multiple arrests of elected officials. I am a member of the Leadership Palm Beach County Class of 2013. I live in West Palm Beach with my husband, Bill DiPaolo.
