In this episode, Rebecca talks with Lois Nembhard of HumanitiesDC about the organization’s Community Journalism Training Program and why teaching journalism skills at the community level matters. Lois explains how the program grew out of HumanitiesDC’s broader mission of storytelling, how participants are trained over several weeks by working journalists, and why centering community voices is key to strengthening local news. They discuss what participants learn, the types of stories that emerge, and how programs like this can help communities tell their own stories—especially in places that are often underrepresented or misunderstood by traditional media.
