Giving Compass' Take:

• Spaceship Media is a nonprofit that works with new organizations to facilitate conversations called "dialogue journalism" to help individuals discuss what is at the center of cultural and political divides.

• How will dialogue journalism move the U.S. forward? How can donors support media outlets that are engaging with audiences through constructive discussions?

• Read more about building a civil society dialogue. 

After the 2016 election, journalists Jeremy Hay and Eve Pearlman saw a need for better dialogue among ideological opponents. “Just the increase in discord, and real lack of civility and decline in trust in media,” Pearlman explains. “We started thinking, what could we do to do something different?”

Their answer is what they call “dialogue journalism.” That is, Pearlman says, “going to the heart of divides. Bringing communities together in dialogue across difference, supporting those conversations with fact.”

Their nonprofit, Spaceship Media, works with news organizations to facilitate discussions around the nation’s most divisive topics, like gun control, gentrification, and immigration. The conversations are constructed with the underlying belief that there is power when you provide a place where people can be curious.

Read the full article about dialogue journalism by Amy Costello at Nonprofit Quarterly.