The Maine Monitor will be out in the community on several occasions in the coming months! Please join us for any of the below events or reach out to help us arrange a visit to your community!
We welcome opportunities to talk with readers and communities across Maine and enjoy participating in conversations about our work and issues in Maine.
Monday, October 21: Maine Monitor editor Kate Cough will moderate separate keynote discussions with Dr. Basil Gooden, USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development, and Hannah Pingree, the Director of Governor Mills’ Office of Policy Innovation and the Future. The discussions will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. during the 2024 GrowSmart Maine summit at the Waterville Opera House. Register to attend.
Tuesday, October 22: MCPIR executive director Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm will speak on the case for local news in our nation’s democracy, and why nonprofit news is the future of local news, at the Belfast Public Library, in partnership with Belfast Senior College, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Register to attend in-person or virtually.
Friday, November 1: Maine Monitor environmental reporter Emmett Gartner and Maine Monitor contributing Washington County reporter Joyce Kryszak will moderate separate panels during the University of Maine’s Rural Issues Symposium. Stay tuned for registration details.
Wednesday, November 20: MCPIR executive director Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm will participate in a Camden Conference panel discussion titled “Democracy Diminished: Is Local News Dying?” at 6:30 p.m. in Falmouth. Register to attend.
Wednesday, July 31: MCPIR executive director Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm will introduce a panel at the COA Summer Institute in Bar Harbor
Wednesday, July 31: MCPIR executive director Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm will be a panelist for a discussion on saving local news, hosted at the Blue Hill Public Library at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, August 7: Join us for Maine Monitor Night at Fogtown Brewing in Ellsworth from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.! Chat with Maine Monitor staff about our work and news in Maine in a relaxed environment.
Sunday, August 11: Maine Monitor environmental reporter Emmett Gartner will join editor Kate Cough and executive director Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm for a discussion on Maine’s news deserts, hosted at the Islesboro Community Center at 5:30 p.m.
Wednesday, August 28: The Maine Monitor will be hosting a panel about environmental journalism. Details are still forthcoming for the event that will be hosted at the Martin Point Community Center.
Tuesday, September 17: Join the Maine Monitor newsroom for a panel on environmental journalism at 6:30 p.m. in the Belfast Public Library.
Friday, September 20 through Sunday, September 22: Find our booth at the Common Ground Fair. Talk with our editors and reporters — we’ll be eager to hear your story ideas! On Friday, September 20 at 5 p.m. our executive director Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm will host a discussion about nonprofit news in Maine in the SPA Speakers Tent.
Monday, September 23: Maine Monitor editor Kate Cough will speak at the Mitchell Center at 3 p.m. about Maine’s environmental and energy challenges.
Tuesday, October 8: The Maine Monitor and Waterville Creates will host a showing of the film Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink and a Q&A with filmmaker Rick Goldsmith at the Maine Film Center in Waterville.
Wednesday, October 9: The Maine Monitor, Bangor Daily News, and Ellsworth American will host a showing of the film Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink and a Q&A with filmmaker Rick Goldsmith at The Grand in Ellsworth.
Thursday, October 10: The Maine Monitor and Portland Press Herald will host a showing of the film Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink and a Q&A with filmmaker Rick Goldsmith at the University of New England in Biddeford.