Jan Shaffer This entry, written by J-Lab’s Jan Schaffer, was originally posted at www.j-lab.org. 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 – with encouraging support from Knight Foundation. Now, it’s time […]

Check out today’s Washington Post and msnbc.com: student reporters and investigative journalists have teamed up for two new stories on transportation safety in an unprecedented national reporting project. Federal recommendations on avoiding plane crashes often go ignored, according to one article. Another reports that America’s highways are more dangerous due to lax medical certification for […]

U.C. Berkeley student journalist Ryan Phillips interviews a trucker at a stop in Arizona while on assignment for News21. School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and executive editor of News21. She was the lead editor on this summer’s investigative project on transportation safety, and wrote this post for KnightBlog. Five years […]

The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism announced today it will establish the nation’s most intensive program in entrepreneurial journalism with the creation of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism and the nation’s first Master of Arts degree in Entrepreneurial Journalism. The $10 million Tow-Knight Center will receive $3 million from Knight […]

Oxfam has won the 1ForAll campaign’s first video contest for a piece that touts the freedoms of the First Amendment. Only 1 in 25 Americans can name the First Amendment’s five freedoms and the majority can only come up with one.’That’s why the’1 For All campaign was founded ‘ to remind Americans about how they use these […]