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The New Voices project has a companion Web site, J-Learning. It is a how-to site for community journalism with training in Web site creation; basic HTML; page design and layout; use of photos, audio, video and animation; using databases and surveys; law and ethics; advertising and marketing; and fundraising and e-commerce.
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www.J-NewVoices.org
New Voices is a pioneering program to seed innovative community news ventures in the United States. Through 2010, New Voices is helping to fund the start-up of 56 micro-local news projects.
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New Voices is a pioneering program to seed innovative community news ventures in the United States. Through 2010, New Voices has helped to fund the start-up of 55 micro-local news projects. The 2010 grantees will receive $17,000 grants and have the opportunity for $8,000 in follow-up funding after one year. New Voices is administered by J-Lab at American University and supported by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
- Oregon Arts Watch, Portland, OR
- Lincoln’s New Voices, Lincoln, NE
- Tipster at VTDigger.org, East Hardwick, VT
- River District News, Charlotte, NC
- Essex County Community Media, Newark, NJ
- NeighborWeb, San Jose, CA
- AllPrinceton, Princeton, NJ
- Morgan MoJo Lab, Baltimore, MD
- Landings, Rockland, ME
- Olympia Newswire, Seattle, WA
 | Grand Avenue News has launched a new website covering the community of Village West, Florida. It includes news concerning Business, Family, Education, and more. |
 | Oakland Local is not just covering community news and arts, but is digging into youth sex trafficking in its backyard. The site is reporting out an 8-part series on the growing problem and the county’s efforts to contain it. |
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2009 New Voices grantee Oakland Local recently released a report on the progress made since receiving funding one year ago. In the seven months since their launch, Oakland Local has produced more than 3,000 stories, blog posts and photo galleries from 52 contributors.
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A new module by Dave Poulson, editor of GreatLakesEcho.org. Engaging readers is why your online news community exists. You can't use the wisdom of the crowds if the crowd isn't talking. Without fast and substantive engagement, you might as well publish a newspaper. So when you build it and they don't come, what do you do, short of waiting?
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New Forms of Journalism Emerge in New Media Ecosystem
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.
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