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Law for Media Startups – New Entrepreneurship Guide

Washington, D.C. – J-Lab Partners with CUNY to Create E-Guide: “Law for Media Startups,” a new resource for entrepreneurs launching news ventures and educators teaching students how to do it, was published today by CUNY’s Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism.

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New J-Lab Web Portal – Enhanced On-Ramp for Rich Resources

Oct. 4, 2016 update: This press release reflects a 2011 redesign of J-Lab.org using the ExpressionEngine 2.0 content management system (CMS). In Fall 2016 the site was migrate to the WordPress CMS platform. While the basic design of the site remains the same, some of the content is different. As such the old version of

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Citizen Journalists: Get the Government Records You Need

WASHINGTON, D.C. – “The Citizen Journalist’s Guide to Open Government,” an extensive multimedia e-learning module to help new media makers understand how to obtain public records and get into public meetings, launched today on the Knight Citizen News Network (www.kcnn.org). The guide features a unique interactive map that tells citizens how they can locate open-government

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J-Lab Moves to American University; Draws $2.4M Knight Foundation Grant

WASHINGTON, D.C. – J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism has moved to American University’s School of Communication, where it will expand its operations with the help of a $2.4 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to American University. J-Lab helps journalists and citizens use digital technologies to develop new ways of

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Launched Today: The Knight Citizen News Network

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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J-Lab: $1.4 Million Knight Grant Supports Citizens Media

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 Journalism Building at Maryland to be Named for Knight Newspaper Brothers

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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J-Learning.org: J-Lab Launches “How-to” Site for Community Publishing

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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Knight Foundation: $1 Million to J-Lab to Launch Community News Ventures

College Park, Md – J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism will launch a pioneering program to seed community news ventures around the country with a new $1 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Over the next two years, the “New Voices” project will help fund the start-up of 20 micro-local,

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