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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
- Mosaic: Lincoln’s New Voices, Lincoln, NE
- Tipster at VTDigger.org, East Hardwick, VT
- River District News, Charlotte, NC
- Essex County Community Media, Newark, NJ
- NeighborWebSJ, San Jose, CA
- AllPrinceton, Princeton, NJ
- Morgan MoJo Lab, Baltimore, MD
- Landings, Rockland, ME
 | ChicagoTalks received national recognition in the New York Times for its investigation into tax breaks that benefited already-profitable companies in downtown Chicago and largely ignored blighted, outlying neighborhoods. Read more. |
 | In “Pricing Out the West Grove”, a series of six videos on local topics ranging from barbershops to home ownership, Grand Avenue News discusses the positive and negative aspects of development in the Coconut Grove, Fla. community. |
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J-Lab’s New Voices program has met its goal of seeding dozens of projects that provide much needed news and information to communities across the United States. As our recent “New Voices: What Works” report shows, of the 48 projects launched through mid-2010, 88 percent are still online and 76 percent are actively updated.
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J-Lab will not administer New Voices grants for 2011. Still have an idea to build a community news site, or ready to launch on your own? Look through our learning modules at http://www.kcnn.org and toolkits at http://www.j-learning.org.
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New Voices is an initiative of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. 