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The New Voices project has launched its 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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New Voices grantee Learning to Finish created a calculator that allows users to see projected graduation rates for individual school districts, states, and the United States as a whole. It measures the likelihood that a 9th grader will complete high school on time. Check out The Finish Line Calculator. Hartsville Today has released its "cook book," a guide for citizen media sites based on the experiences and lessons learned in the first year of the small-town South Carolina site. Download the PDF version (1.1 MB). As the 2005 New Voices grantees make progress recruiting volunteers, launching Web sites and building studios, they bring promise of citizens media outlets to their communities. MSNBC, the BBC and other traditional newsrooms are eliciting reader responses on their Web sites to capture news moments from a citizens' lens. |
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New Voices is a pioneering program to seed innovative community news ventures in the United States. Through 2008, New Voices is helping to fund the start-up of 40 micro-local news projects with $12,000 grants; support them with an educational Web site, and help foster their sustainability through $5,000 second-year matching grants. New Voices is administered by
J-Lab Executive Director
2008 Grantees
• Miami-Whitewater Valley Public Media Project, Oxford, OH• The Lexington Commons, Lexington, KY
• Grass Roots: Digital Journalism in the Nation’s Birthplace of Aviation, Kent, OH
• Cool State Online, Los Angeles, CA
• Green Jobs Philly, Philadelphia, PA
• The Appalachian Independent, Frostburg, MD
• Immigration: The View from Here, Crested Butte, CO
• Voices of Rural Native Alaska, Anchorage, AK
• Voices for Veterans, Columbia, SC
• Family Life Behind Bars, New York, NY
Check Out the Previous Grantees
2007
• List of 2007 Grantees• 2007 Grantee Progress Reports
2006
• List of 2006 Grantees• 2006 Grantee Progress Reports
2005
• List of 2005 Grantees• 2005 Grantee Progress Reports
Features from the Grantees
| Saint Paul City News Desk is now posting its features on YouTube. Partner project and 2005 grantee Twin Cities Daily Planet is also posting the videos on a special video section on its Web site, with the latest video appearing on the home page. |
 | NewCastleNOW.org posts photo slideshows of events they cover, including a local film festival and a park opening, as well as photos taken for feature stories, like the one about a town resident’s famous ferns. See the slideshows. |
| Greater Fulton News in Richmond, Va., has also launched a YouTube channel to house its student- produced video, including this feature on a local soul food cart. |
New 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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