Weave News

Weave News is a grassroots journalism organization whose overarching mission is “to weave the world together and promote social justice by investigating underreported stories, highlighting alternative perspectives, and promoting grassroots media production and critical media literacy.”
Weave News was founded in 2006 by students, faculty, and alumni from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.
Weave News is open to receiving submissions from anyone at any time. In addition to soliciting specific pieces for ongoing series via their respective submission forms, the organization's website features a general "Call for Submissions" form through which anyone can pitch a story that doesn't necessarily fall under any one specific series. If a pitch is accepted, contributors will work with the editor(s) who are assigned to whichever series the piece will be published under.
Organization & Funding
Weave News is organized into Editorial, Communications, and Development teams, with directors, coordinators, editors, contributing editors, and interns working under each. The Weave News staff also includes audio engineers, production managers and assistants, and design managers and assistants.
Weave News has published various works from many different contributors over the years. Contributors are located all over the globe and include students, artists, activists, professors, writers, and community leaders.
The organization is funded primarily by donations via the Weave News Contributors Fund as well as grants, including a 2018 St. Lawrence University Innovation Grant, a Grant for Racial Justice and Equity from the Black Laurentian Initiative (BLI) at St. Lawrence University, and grants funded by Patti McGill Peterson through the Peterson Center for International and Intercultural Studies at St. Lawrence University.
Weave News has held an annual fundraiser each year since 2020, which is primarily publicized through social media channels and brings in donations made online. The first Annual Fundraiser took place in December 2020, while the organization's first Summer Fundraiser was in June 2021. During the 2021 Annual Fundraiser, the organization launched it's True Fans Club, which was renamed the Weave News Coffee Club for the 2022 Summer Fundraiser. The Coffee Club is made up of supporters who commit to recurring monthly or yearly donations and receive certain special perks in return.
Series & Projects
Series
The Glocal Exchange
Originally called "Glocal Dispatches," The Glocal Exchange series is described as "a grassroots journalism project that examines globalization through a critical, local lens" and "from the perspective of local communities." The term "Glocal" is a combination of the words "global" and "local"
The series is currently edited by Stella Terjung and Dylan Butts. Past editors include Khady Hamid, Paige Richardson, Cecilia Hyland, and Stephanie Muldrew.
Conflicting Emotions: Experiences of BIPOC at PWIs
Conflicting Emotions is a submissions-based series which centers "the experiences of BIPOC in predominantly white institutions (PWIs)."
The series was originally edited by Shanice Arlow and was later joined by Fikiswa "Fiki" Tsabedze. Conflicting Emotions has not been consistently updated since 2021.
Weaving the Streets
Weaving the Streets is described as "a grassroots journalism project focusing on the diverse ways in which ordinary people around the world use public space to express themselves."
Weaving the Streets is currently edited by John Collins, Cathy Tedford, and Cassandra Kunert.
Confluence - Confluencia
The Confluence series and website is a collaboration between "a core team of Weave News and Talking Wings editors and storytellers." Talking Wings is "a collective of environmental storytellers" who focus on ecocentric narratives and view stories as "the seeds of a regenerative future." The project is headed by Blake Lavia and Tzintzun Aguilar-Izzo and features collaborations with earth guardians from across the globe.
Confluence is currently edited by Amanda Barreto Salgueiro in collaboration with Lavia and Aguilar-Izzo.
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Podcasts
Interweaving
The Interweaving podcast, which was launched in 2019, produces "fresh, timely conversations about underreported stories from around the globe" which "highlight the role of grassroots journalists, activists, and authors who are working to create a better information ecosystem and a more just world."
The show follows an interview-style format, wherein a host or guest host from Weave News conducts a structured interview with one or more guests. Episodes occasionally follow other formats such as roundtable discussions.
In the spring of 2020, Weave News published a mini-series of episodes, COVID-19 Diaries, under the Interweaving podcast. The series featured audio testimonies from citizen journalists across the world about their experiences with the impact of COVID-19 during the early days of the pandemic.
Conflicting Emotions
The Conflicting Emotions podcast is inspired by Weave News's Conflicting Emotions article series and was launched in 2021. It, too, features and explores the experiences of students of color at predominantly white institutions (PWIs).
The series is currently hosted by Avana Mohandesi.
St. Lawrence Citizen Journalism Incubator (SLCJI) Program
The SLCJI program was created in collaboration with North Country Public Radio, The Hill News, and Nature Up North in 2018. The program was designed to "provide community members with the opportunity to receive training and support for conducting their own independent, investigative journalism projects" in the North Country of New York.<ref name=":1" />
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