Soapbox Cincinnati and NKY thrives reported on five city neighborhoods including Walnut Hills, Covington, West End, Camp Washington, and Westwood continuously in the “On The Ground” series.
For each series, Soapbox gathered community residents, stakeholders, community councils and development organization partners to determine what stories the neighborhoods would like to tell. The community-shaped editorial calendar resulted in many of our favorite feature stories reported on between 2016 and 2020. There is genuine interest in urban communities that are often underreported and underrepresented in local media, especially during 2020, which was a year dominated by the national election, a pandemic and misinformation.
Soapbox hosted a weekly Community Open Newsroom in conjunction with the Walnut Hills series in the winter of 2020 headquartered at Caffè Vivace. Twenty-two neighborhood champions joined our live broadcasts hosted by Kathryne Gardette. Our Community Open Newsroom closed at the start of the nationwide COVID shutdown.
A critical step is establishing a lively business district in the West End begins with the Regal Theater, one of many theaters that breathed life into the neighborhood.
The Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses, which helps residents find a safe, affordable place to live, is facing challenges due to COVID-19.
Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses and The Port of Greater Cincinnati are working to keep current residents from being displaced.
Current, longtime residents reflect on the neighborhood’s heyday in the 1940s and 50s. That sense of community lives on despite a variety of challenges.
The City Heights housing project is a mystery to many, a shadow community within the city of Covington, out of sight and mind.
Horse racing’s hold on Latonia is long gone, but unique small businesses have started to repopulate the community.
Covington is home to about 2,220 Latino residents, a little over 5 % of the population, according to 2018 estimates. When the new census figures are tallied, that number is expected to grow.
Covington's Eastside and Westside neighborhoods, which have been traditionally separated by race, are working to change their stories.
Walnut Hills On The Ground Open Newsroom wraps up, for now, with 22 video stories that explain Why Walnut Hills and why now.
Open Newsroom host Kathryne Gardette speaks with Hamilton County Commission President Denise Driehaus
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