Welcome, friends!

Lede New Orleans launched its Community Reporting Fellowship training program in March 2020 with vision to transform how local media serves our communities. The goal was to equip creative professionals from Black, brown, LGBTQ+ and other underrepresented communities, age 18-25, with skills, tools and resources to make their own media and transform how narratives are shaped and how information is shared in our city.

Today, our community journalism nonprofit has trained 26 Community Reporting Fellows and published more than 70 pieces of original multimedia content elevating voices and giving context to a range of local issues relevant to underrepresented communities, including K-12 education, food access and mental health care. Our email newsletter (now hosted here) is one of the main ways our fellows share the information they are learning with our community.

We're still getting our bearings in our new digital home. We appreciate your grace as we get things up and running. In the meantime, you can subscribe in the meantime if you'd like to stay up to date and receive emails when new content is published.

You can learn more about the Community Reporting Fellowship and our work at www.ledenola.org.