2006 Grantees
The 2006 New Voices grantees were chosen from 185 applicants from across the country. These projects represent a diverse mix of Web, broadcast and print projects. J-Lab believes that these programs will serve as examples to foster community journalism efforts in other cities and towns.
Mia Frederick, Project Manager, Appalshop/WMMT
Whitesburg, Ky.
This project plans to train citizens from central Appalachia in radio news production and story gathering for broadcast on radio and the Web.
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Cristina L. Azocar, Ph.D., Director, Center for Integration
and Improvement of Journalism (CIIJ), San Francisco State University
San Francisco
The center plans to create a new student-run Ethnic News Service to help provide better coverage of public affairs for the state's 700 ethnic media outlets.
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Formerly titled Creating Community Connections
Suzanne McBride, Director of News Reporting and Writing/Journalism,
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago
This project plans to recruit and train neighborhood journalists to cover five ZIP codes in central Chicago.
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Linn Washington, Co-director, MURL Program,
Temple University Journalism Department
Philadelphia
To partner Temple journalism students with public broadcaster, WHYY-TV, to push hyperlocal newcasts to the city's largely Hispanic 5th Street Corridor between Lehigh and Hunting Park Avenues via WHYY's experimental datacasting technology.
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Suzanne W. Morse, President, Pew Partnership for Civic Change
Charlottesville, Va.
The partnership will launch and maintain a wiki dedicated to sharing information and ideas for countering the nationwide high school drop-out crisis.
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Bill Reader, Assistant Professor,
E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University
Athens, Ohio
The school will recruit and train citizens in three rural villages in Southeastern Ohio to create a monthly newsletter and a Web site to be updated weekly on local government, schools, business and organizations.
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Maryanne Reed, Interim Dean,
WVU P.I. Reed School of Journalism
Morgantown, W.V.
The project will create a news operation at WHFI-FM, a radio station licensed to the Monroe County School Board.
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David Poulson, Associate Director,
Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, Michigan State University
East Lansing, Mich.
The center will create collaborative wiki entries that describe the problems, cleanup strategies, contaminants, industries, people, health impacts and other issues related to the 43 toxic hot spots in the Great Lakes region.
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Keith Graham, Associate Professor, University of Montana School of Journalism
Missoula, Mont.
The network will recruit and train residents of three rural Montana towns to report on news and information for rural websites and plans to locate a computer kiosk in each community to ensure access and the ability to contribute to the news.
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Robert Hackett, Vice President, Bonner Foundation
Trenton Center for Campus-Community Partnerships
Princeton, N.J.
This project seeks to establish a website and e-mail newsletter covering policies and legislation in Trenton, N.J.
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