The Wichita Journalism Collaborative is an alliance of seven media organizations and three community groups, formed to support and enhance quality local journalism.
In addition to KMUW, media partners include The Active Age, The Community Voice, The Journal (Kansas Leadership Center), KSN-TV, The Sunflower, The Wichita Eagle and Wichita Beacon. Community partners committed to participating in the initiative include AB&C Bilingual Resources, The Elliott School of Communication at Wichita State University and Wichita Public Library.
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Mackenzi Truelove and Diane Albert are running for a spot on the Wichita school board. The two took part in a candidate forum at Wichita State on Tuesday night. -
District 1 candidates for Wichita City Council met in a forum Tuesday night at Wichita State University. -
The rate of encampment cleanups in Wichita has dramatically increased compared to last year, but still-visible homelessness frustrates community and City Council members. -
Candidates for the District 6 seat on the Wichita City Council discussed key issues at a forum Wednesday at the Evergreen Library. The event was hosted by the Wichita Journalism Collaborative. -
The only public radio station serving the five-state, mostly rural High Plains region is organizing a fresh era of community-based journalism after $1 billion in cuts to public broadcasting. A grant to create a brand-new network for local news and information arrived, according to High Plains Public Radio founders, with serendipitous timing. -
Wichita producers Deontae Hayden and Daley Gunter turn real struggles of love, betrayal, and redemption into a faith-based drama for the stage. -
Vulnerable Kansans already struggled to find housing. Federal funding cuts will make it even harder.When DOGE cut $2.3 million from a Kansas state agency, it hit rural communities hard. Housing providers already stretched thin closed their doors while others found temporary life rafts, bracing for what’s next. -
With President Trump signing an executive order to close the U.S. Department of Education, educators fear they’ll also lose the McKinney-Vento program that protects the educational rights of homeless students along with it. -
The organization helps families with children overcome homelessness and housing insecurity through prevention, shelter, stabilization and long-term support. -
During Tuesday’s Wichita City Council meeting, council members considered affordable apartments at WaterWalk, but the discussion turned into a referendum of sorts on the development.
