Innovative program to spur the growth of new sources of high quality local news and information about the Chicago region selects 12 award winners
Knight Community Information Challenge Winners Are Part of a Growing Number of Local Foundations Seeking to Meet Local Information Needs
Innovative new program designed to spur the growth of new sources of local news and information about the Chicago region
New Voices has announced its 2009 grantees. A project of American University’s J-Lab, New Voices funds community news experiments. Some of this year’s grantees are universities collaborating with their surrounding communities. Wayne State University has hired professional journalists to edit submissions from students and Detroit citizens for GrossePointeToday.com, while The Annenberg School at USC will […]
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Below, links to projects and news around some of the Knight News Challenge winners, their local news delivery projects, and other journalism posts from this week: News Challenge winner Dan Pacheco asks for feedback on the Printcasting (a project to “make it possible for anyone to create a local print newspaper, magazine or newsletter with […]
On the heels of the recent stir over the Associated Press filing DMCA notices on the community site Drudge Retort, a timely article in the Washington Post quotes Knight News Challenge winner Geoff Dougherty of Chi-TownDailyNews.org on his vision for the site and professional training models for online journalists. The article details how bloggers can […]
Knight Foundation Helps Expand Digital Journalism Training In Latin America, the Caribbean via U. of Texas Center
COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Seven new ways to connect people with news – from showing every Congressional vote, to warning where hurricanes will strike, to blogging the world – are the winners of this year’s Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. “The hallmark of this year’s entries was the use of basic technology to add […]
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