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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.

2010 New Voices Grantees

Features from the Grantees

Stories That Fly, a 2008 New Voices Grantee, continues on course with their unique project involving narrative nonfiction and online storytelling about aviation. image

imageGrand Avenue News has launched a new website covering the community of Village West, Florida. It includes news concerning Business, Family, Education, and more.

Grosse Point Today, a 2009 New Voices Grantee, has launched their Web site. It features community information including local sports, news and people. image

imageOakland 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.

 

ALERTS

2010 New Voices Grantees Announced!
Nine promising community news projects from across the U.S. have been selected as this year’s New Voices grant winners. Each can receive up to $25,000 to launch a news initiative and work to sustain it over the next two years.
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On Sale Now!

Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive

Get your own copy of Mark Briggs’ handbook for new media journalists and citizen reporters. Only $10. While supplies last.

Spotlight On

One Year In and Ahead of Schedule

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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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Outside-the-Box Community Engagement

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 J-Lab Research

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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American University School of CommunicationJohn S. and James L. Knight FoundationNew Voices is an initiative of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. J-LabTM is an incubator for innovative, participatory news experiments and is a center of American University's School of Communication in Washington, D.C. New Voices is
funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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