News Releases

New Voices Invests in a New Regional News Model, Community and Niche Web Sites

Ten innovative citizen media projects have been selected as this year's New Voices grant winners and will each receive up to $17,000 in start-up funding. 05/15/08

Apply Now: Funding to Start Community News Projects

The New Voices project will help fund the start-up of 10 innovative local news initiatives next year. Each project may receive as much as $17,000 in grants over two years. Thirty New Voices projects have been funded since 2005. 12/02/07

New Voices: 10 New Citizen Media Ideas Are Funded

Ten new ideas for amplifying community news will receive $12,000 New Voices grants to launch news sites for under-covered communities, embed TV reporters in neighborhoods, network regional radio programs, and map the local impact of climate change, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism announced today. 04/04/07

New Voices: New Funding for 10 Innovative Citizen Media Projects

Environmental news in the Great Lakes, communities in rural Alaska and inner-city neighborhoods in Philadelphia will be covered in 10 innovative community news experiments to receive 2006 New Voices funding, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism announced today. 04/17/06

J-Learning.org: J-Lab launches "how-to" site for community publishing

J-Learning.org, a how-to digital handbook for designing, launching and sustaining an online community news site was launched today by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland. 08/23/05

New Voices: 10 Citizen Media Experiments to Launch

Ten New Voices award winners from across the United States will receive $12,000 grants to launch innovative local media ventures, J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism announced today. 04/28/05

Call for Proposals: Citizens Media Ventures

New Voices, a pioneering program to seed innovative citizen media ventures around the country, today issued a call for its first round of grant proposals. 01/09/05

$1 Million to Launch Community News Ventures

J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism will launch a pioneering program to seed community news ventures around the country with a new $1 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. 10/25/04