WSU communication Prof. Oshagan helps coordinate efforts reporting Detroit's bankruptcy...

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Detroit's bankruptcy focus of new reporting collaborative: New Michigan Media newspapers join the effort

Five of the largest ethnic and minority newspapers have a critical role in a new reporting project examining the city's bankruptcy and its effect on the region. Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the project involves four nonprofit media organizations as well as New Michigan Media. All the media outlets, as part of the grant, will form the Detroit Journalism Cooperative where coordinated reporting will focus on Detroit's bankruptcy and its immediate, ongoing and long-lasting consequences. "This grant will allow the New Michigan Media newspapers to capture, humanize, explain and discuss how the bankruptcy impacts their respective communities," said Hayg Oshagan, executive director of New Michigan Media and Wayne State University associate professor. "Ethnic and minority communities are important economic drivers in this region, and this grant will support in-depth, original and creative coverage of how individuals, businesses and organizations are affected by the historic bankruptcy." New Michigan Media's partners in the cooperative are Bridge Magazine, Detroit Public Radio (WDET-FM) Detroit Public Television (DPTV) and Michigan Radio.

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