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New Voices 2010 Request for Proposals
Deadline: March 1, 2010
Is something missing in your local media landscape? Are you craving news and information sources that energize, engage and build a sense of community and connection? Are you ready to be the media you wish to see in your town?
J-Lab: The institute for Interactive Journalism invites you to apply for funding to launch a participatory news venture in your community. J-Lab will select nine projects in 2010. Each project may receive up to $25,000. Click here for more details.
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.
Playing the News
On Sept. 11, 2008, J-Lab hosted several news gaming pioneers for a workshop with the Online News Association convention. Their work is available in the Games 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.
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Blogically ThinkingFirst Read: Follow the Breadcrumbs
This is a first-read response to The Reconstruction of American Journalism by Len Downie and Michael Schudson. Laurels to Len Downie Jr. and Michael Schudson for a comprehensive review of developments in the journalistic ecosystem. Darts for the mile-wide, inch-deep reportage. | |
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