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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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Twitter has finally hit its stride as a leading tool for finding and sharing timely information from all sorts of places and sources. Learn how to sign up, log on and start posting "tweets" to enhance your hyperlocal coverage. Geanne Rosenberg of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism created a Knight Citizen News Network learning module and accompanying Q&A blog focused on helping professional and citizen journalists avoid potential legal pitfalls. 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). |
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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
Projects Launching Sites
Six 2008 New Voices projects are now online!
Grass Roots: storiesthatfly.com
Green Jobs Philly: greenjobsphilly.org
The Appalachian Independent: appindie.org
Voices for Veterans: vetvenue.org
Family Life Behind Bars: livesinfocus.org/prison
Cool State Online: coolstatela.com
| The Rural News Network in Montana created a Flickr group for their CrowNews.net site where citizens can share their pictures. More than 400 photos have been uploaded, including vivid shots from Crow Fair. View photos. |  |
 | Students in Temple University’s MURL Building Blocks program have created an in-depth, multimedia package covering gentrification in South Philadelphia. Check out the articles, video and slide show. |
| NewCastleNow.org has posted a live Webcam so that visitors can view the creation of a new “pocket park” in downtown New Castle in real time. See the description and view the Webcam. |  |
2008 New Voices 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
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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