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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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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New Voices: New Funding for 10 Innovative Citizen Media Projects
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Apr. 18, 2006 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Environmental news in the Great Lakes, communities in rural Alaska and inner-city neighborhoods in Philadelphia will be covered in 10 innovative community news experiments to receive 2006 New Voices funding, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism announced today. This year’s award winners not only signaled a deep desire for better hyperlocal
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J-Learning.org: J-Lab Launches “How-to” Site for Community Publishing
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Aug. 24, 2005 in Press Releases
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – J-Learning.org, a how-to digital handbook for designing, launching and sustaining an online community news site was launched today by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland. The Web site offers 20 chapters and more than 60 subsections of basic skills training on how to plan a site,
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New Voices: 10 Citizen Media Experiments to Launch
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Apr. 28, 2005 in Press Releases
College Park, Md. – Ten New Voices award winners from across the United States will receive $12,000 grants to launch innovative local media ventures, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism announced today. The 10 were selected from 243 proposals seeking inaugural New Voices funding, said Jan Schaffer, director of J-Lab, which administers the program, funded
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Call for Proposals: Citizens Media Ventures
Posted by Jan Schaffer on Jan. 10, 2005 in Press Releases
College Park, MD – New Voices, a pioneering program to seed innovative citizen media ventures around the country, today issued a call for its first round of grant proposals. Eligibility guidelines and application forms can be found at the New Voices Web site, www.J-NewVoices.org, also launched today. Project proposals are due March 17, 2005. New
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