The Bloomfield Information Project is seeking a community member with a passion for local news and civic engagement to support our public service journalism lab as a Civic Info Producer.
The Bloomfield Information Project was awarded $35,000 by the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium to pilot a program to recruit, train, and pay residents to report local news that responds to community information needs.
The Bloomfield Information Project is hosting experts from the Newark Civilian Complaint Review Board, ACLU-NJ, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, and Center for Policing Equity for a solutions-oriented panel discussion about racial justice in policing and public safety in Bloomfield and Essex County on May 25 at 7 p.m.
The Bloomfield Information Project seeks community members with backgrounds in writing or communications who want to serve Bloomfield residents by producing local news in the public interest.
On February 11, 2021, the Bloomfield Information Project and Social Impact Studios gathered two dozen Essex County residents for a discussion about the role of local news and information in their communities. The listening session included discussion of our area's future, the role news and information can play in it, and what's working – and not – in civic news and information in Essex County
The Bloomfield Information Project is partnering with the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium to host a listening session for Essex County residents to share their experience with local news and information on Thursday, Feb. 11 at 6 p.m on Zoom.
The Bloomfield Information Project is committed to transparency in every aspect of funding our organization. Here's our continuously updated list of financial supporters.
Thanks to our Founding Sustainers, the Bloomfield Information Project will enter its second year prepared to expand its public interest news and information service. Here are the 131 people who helped us lay this cornerstone.
The Bloomfield Information Project's Founding Sustainer drive raised more than $25k for the nonprofit local news organization.
We normally avoid reporting national news because it's usually not useful for day-to-day life in Bloomfield. But after the Jan. 6 events in Washington, D.C., we want you to know you're not alone.
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