About J-Lab

Mission

J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism is an incubator for innovative news experiments that use new technologies to help people actively engage in critical public issues. Its core mission is to improve public life by transforming journalism for today and re-inventing it for tomorrow.

J-Lab spotlights dynamic news experiences and helps to develop interactive news ideas that not only educate people about public affairs but also invite their participation.

It rewards cutting-edge innovations through the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism funded by the Knight Foundation. It spotlights the creative assets of women with the McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneurs project. It funds pioneering hyperlocal citizen media ventures through its New Voices project and administers the community media e-learning sites Knight Citizen News Network and J-Learning.

J-Lab is a center of the American University' School of Communication.

To reach us, please visit the Contact Us page.
 

J-Lab Projects

Funders

J-Lab’s projects have been supported with grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the McCormick Foundation.

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About J-Lab

J-Lab helps journalists and citizens use digital technologies to develop new ways for people to participate in public life with projects on innovations in journalism, citizen media, news games, interactive stories, entrepreneurship, research, training, and publications

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2010 New Voices Request for Proposals
Deadline: March 1, 2010. Guidelines

"Grants for New Media Women Entrepreneurs"

2010 NMWE Request for Proposals
Deadline: April 12, 2010. Guidelines

"Access Denied?"

Panel Discussion at the Century Foundation
Aug. 5, '09. Video

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