Oakland Voices

Oakland Voices Blog: Part 1

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The Oakland Tribune’s Oakland Voices project launched last weekend. I knew the two days straight of training would be intense. I expected the ten people we’d chosen as “community correspondents” to be wholly knackered come Sunday afternoon.

 
  

  

    


  
  	    

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The Oakland Tribune has a new community project that  teaches West Oakland residents to write stories about their neighborhoods. The program is called "Oakland Voices." Its goal is to empower West Oakland residents with skills and tools to go into their neighborhoods and report on issues, people, and ideas they think are important. It will be based at the The West Oakland Public Library's Community Media Access Center.