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2010 NMWE Funding
Deadline: April 12, 2010, Midnight EST
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and the McCormick Foundation are seeking to fund women-led projects that will change the world of journalism for the better. J-Lab will select four projects in 2010; each project will receive up to $12,000 each. Click here for more details.
NMWE is a unique initiative addressing opportunity and innovation, recruitment and retention for women in journalism by spotlighting their ingenuity and entrepreneurial abilities. Pilot projects will show what can be done. Research will tell us what more to do. And an awards program and summit will showcase women's creative ideas. NMWE is supported by the McCormick Foundation.
N.Y. Times Wins $10K Knight-Batten Prize
The New York Times swept top honors in the 2009 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism with six striking entries that netted the $10,000 Grand Prize for a dynamic body of work in the past year. Five $1,000 Special Distinction Awards, including one for Nonprofit Journalism, and a $1,000 Citizen Media Award were also announced. Read the news release.
The judges also cited 21 projects as notable entries. Check them out here.
New Forms of Journalism Emerge
in New Media Ecosystem
Monday, November 9, 2009
New forms of journalism are being created around the country where online local news sites have launched to report on their communities. The journalism is characterized by a deliberate shift in the definition of objectivity, a drive for community conversation and discussion, and broader definitions of "news" that seek to connect readers to a sense of the place where they live, according to new research released today by American University's J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. Read more.
Twitter Tracker
During the 2010 Winter Games, NBCOlympics.com did not just cover the athletic competition. It also offered site users a chance to track tweets related to the games. Their work is available in the Social Networking category of Cool Stuff.
2008 New Voices Grantees Launch
Several 2008 New Voices grantees have launched Web sites for their projects:
- Grassroots, Blue Sky: Stories that Fly
Kent State's digital journalism project on general aviation. - Lives in Focus: Family Life Behind Bars
A CUNY site to help families of prisoners. - Appalachian Independent
A new community news site for Frostburg, Md.
New Media Makers Toolkit
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Blogically ThinkingFree and Easy
Much of the news about start-up community news sites and their impact is anecdotal. While J-Lab collects a lot of those stories, yesterday we heard a refreshing tale of how nimble some new community media makers can be. A shout out goes to Growthspur for its post on how seasoned journalist Bobbi Bowman took matters into her own hands… | |
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2010 NMWE Request for Proposals
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Cool Stuff: Twitter Tracker
During the 2010 Winter Games, NBCOlympics.com did more than just cover the athletic competition. Their new tool earns a spot in Cool Stuff.
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"Access Denied?"
Panel Discussion at the Century Foundation
Aug. 5, '09. Video
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