The Appeal Launches the Care & Collaboration Toolkit

The Appeal and the Reynolds Journalism Institute are thrilled to announce a new resource for news leaders and entrepreneurs: The Care & Collaboration Toolkit. This toolkit serves as a practical resource for news organizations who want to better support their journalists and include them in the decisions that impact their lives and work.

The Appeal team put a lot of time, energy, and research into making The Appeal what it is today: a democratic, worker-led, care-centered newsroom. We love advising newsroom leaders and watching more worker-led nonprofit outlets launch every year, but we often hear from people that they could never apply how we work in their newsrooms. So, we set out to break down our practices and policies and make them adaptable to all sorts of news organizations. 

Whether newsrooms are looking to be fully worker-led (we included a startup checklist for any budding news entrepreneurs out there looking to off our model from scratch) or are seeking guidance on a specific practice like setting better compensation policies or minimizing journalist burnout, The Care & Collaboration Toolkit is a resource for journalists and newsroom leaders interested in putting new ideas into practice.

Read more about the toolkit here and explore the Care & Collaboration toolkit here.