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Ten Benchmarks for the Future of Journalism
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Feb. 2, 2011 in Blog
I have long said that more than the business model of journalism was broken. I believe the craft of journalism is broken, too. Last weekend, J-Lab tested this idea on a group of young journalists who gave up their Saturday to join what turned out to be a robust and animated conversation about “Re-Imagining Journalism.”
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$2.4M to Launch a Philly Journalism Project
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Dec. 21, 2010 in Blog
It’s official: The William Penn Foundation has approved a $2.4 million grant for a Networked Journalism Collaborative project in Philadelphia. A national search for a CEO to lead the initiative begins in January.
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NewsWorks: I Love It
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Nov. 12, 2010 in Blog
I got a sneak peek at NewsWorks.org this week. This is WHYY’s new online networked news portal for the Philadelphia region set to launch on Monday, Nov. 15. And I love the whole idea of it.
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News Entrepreneuring
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Nov. 4, 2010 in Blog
You can be creative, dogged, well meaning and very hard working. You can produce excellent journalism. You can be willing to take risks. You can even mortgage your home to fund your startup. But that does not mean you can make a go of a good news site.
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Collaboration is the New Competition
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Oct. 20, 2010 in Blog
J-Lab launched its Networked Journalism pilot project a little over a year ago. It called for five traditional news organizations to partner with at least five new community news sites in their cities.
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New Voices: What Works
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 30, 2010 in Blog
J-Lab has funded community news startups since 2005, when the movement to launch independent hyperlocal news websites began in earnest. To date, we’ve seeded the launch of 55 “New Voices” experiments. Now, it’s time to report what we have learned – and it’s a lot.
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Taking It to the Next Level
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 28, 2010 in Blog
It’s been five years since J-Lab released the first study on community news sites, “Citizen Media: Fad or the Future of News?”
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Stepping Up the Pace of Innovation
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 15, 2010 in Blog
The level of creativity was dizzying at this year’s Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The winners are already taking their prize-winning ideas to the next level. Meanwhile Grand Prize winner The Sunlight Foundation is taking its “data jamming” mindset into new frontiers, breaking news at the symposium with its latest plans.
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The Knight-Batten Awards: New Recipes for Journalism
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jul. 19, 2010 in Blog
We never know what will rise to the top each year in the Knight-Batten A wards for Innovations in Journalism. But we do know that it will define a significant trend in the rapidly evolving media landscape. This year, without a doubt, the innovations clustered around the process of journalism – not just the finished
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