Washington, D.C. – Three entrepreneurial news ideas – for public storytelling installations, a networking site for Puget Sound’s military community and a news site for and by Latinas – each won $10,000 in a competition that forecast the kinds of fresh and intriguing ideas women have for the future of news. The three ideas, proposed
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New Voices Invests in a New Regional News Model, Community and Niche Web Sites
Posted by Jan Schaffer on May. 14, 2008 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Ten innovative citizen media projects have been selected as this year’s New Voices grant winners and will each receive up to $17,000 in start-up funding. Many of this year’s winners focus on special-interest communities as well as geographic locales. One grantee will create a new model for regional news coverage in
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TechPresident.com Wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Innovations Award
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 16, 2007 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – TechPresident.com, a data-rich, nonpartisan group blog that covers real-time, online activity of the 2008 presidential candidates – and chronicles online content from voters who will elect them, is this year’s $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The site invites every-day people to help break campaign
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Creativity Unleashed: 10 Innovators Place in 2007 Knight-Batten Awards
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Aug. 8, 2007 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Ten creative ways of generating news and information – from tracking how the 2008 presidential candidates are using the Web and how the Web is using them, to in-depth guides to world crisis areas, and virtual guides to news in virtual places – are named the finalists of this year’s Knight-Batten
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New Voices: 10 New Citizen Media Ideas Are Funded
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Apr. 4, 2007 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Ten new ideas for amplifying community news will receive $12,000 New Voices grants to launch news sites for under-covered communities, embed TV reporters in neighborhoods, network regional radio programs, and map the local impact of climate change, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism announced today. “These award winners are embarking on
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Launched Today: The Knight Citizen News Network
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Mar. 26, 2007 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The Knight Citizen News Network, a free web portal to help both citizens and journalists create and responsibly operate community news sites, launched today with an array of learning and resource modules contributed by a network of participants. KCNN.org was created to help citizens use digital media in ways that enrich
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CitMedia Sites are Here to Stay
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Feb. 1, 2007 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Local news web sites offering content generated by users are securing a valuable place in the media landscape and are likely to continue as important sources of community news, according to a report released today by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. “Citizen sites are developing as new forms of bridge
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J-Lab: $1.4 Million Knight Grant Supports Citizens Media
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 19, 2006 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism will create a new self-help training site for citizens media projects and continue a pioneering program to seed community news ventures with a new $1.4 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The grant will support the building of the Knight
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Global Voices Online Wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Innovations Award
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 18, 2006 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Global Voices Online, a web site about how news affects daily life and conversations in more than 130 countries, is this year’s $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The site uses skilled multilingual editors to find and publish thoughtful or entertaining bloggers who discuss what
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New Journalism Building at Maryland to be Named for Knight Newspaper Brothers
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Sep. 18, 2006 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has made a $4.4 million, multi-part grant to the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, University President C.D. Mote Jr. announced today. In recognition of this latest gift, and the university’s strong historical support from the foundation, the planned
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