The Oaklandside

Thank you to the League of Women Voters of Oakland for selecting The Oaklandside as the recipient of its 2024 Making Democracy Work award. As our Edtor-in-Chief Tasneem Raja said when accepting the award last night, “To be a 4-year-old newsroom being honored by a 100-year-old civic organization, that’s pretty cool.!” #localnews #nonprofitnews #democracy #civicinformation #localelections https://lnkd.in/ggurPaZV

📣 Come work with us! Our parent company, Cityside, is looking for a Development Associate to play a crucial role in our fundraising efforts. #jobalert #journalismjobs #localjournalism #nonprofit #fundraising #development Full job description and application in the link below.

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Come join our team! Cityside (The Oaklandside's parent company) is looking for a Director of Product. This is an opportunity for an ambitious and well-organized product manager to have an outsize impact on our growth, our journalism, and our mission. Check out the full job description here: https://lnkd.in/gQW8q6mE #hiring #jobalert #jobposting #journalismjobs #product

✒ Looking for writers! ✒ — Oaklandside publishes a limited amount of sponsored content and is seeking freelancers with news-writing experience to write stories for sponsors (we clearly mark these stories as sponsored). We are especially looking for local writers who can do some of the reporting in person. Stories run 600-1000 words and the fee is $350/story. (Example of a recent sponsored story below). If interested, please send an email and clips to mary at citysidejournalism dot org. https://lnkd.in/gz26zU6V

Helping people engage with their communities is integral to our mission at Oaklandside so we're thrilled that American Press Institute is supporting us through its Civic Discourse and Community Voices Fund to enhance our “as-told-to” first-person storytelling series, Amplify Oakland. Amplify Oakland helps community members share lived experiences on issues of public interest. The grant will allow Oaklandside to produce a short series of Amplify stories surfacing the experiences and perspectives of a diverse group of Oakland residents. And we'll be partnering with long-time collaborators Oakland Voices and El Tímpano to identify residents and produce the stories. Amplify Oakland is an initiative born out of Oaklandside's core values, and its one that could be replicated in any local newsroom. Learn more about it here: https://lnkd.in/gRksGWxs #localnews #communityjournalism #oakland #civicengagement #healthydemocracy #citysidejournalisminitiative