The Facebook Journalism Project is committed to strengthening communities by connecting people with meaningful journalism. Local newspapers play a vital role in providing their communities with authentic, reliable news and information. In this session, Facebook, the National Council for the Training of Journalists and Caxton, South Africa’s leader in community news, will discuss the progress of the Community News Project to hire and train 82 community news reporters and embed them in local newsrooms as well as the need to build other solutions for different business models in different countries, including audience and video accelerators.

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