American Journalism Review article about maverick Steven A. Smith’s career as a reporter.
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Citizen Journalists: Get the Government Records You Need
Posted by J-Lab on Jan. 1, 2009 in Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – “The Citizen Journalist’s Guide to Open Government,” an extensive multimedia e-learning module to help new media makers understand how to obtain public records and get into public meetings, launched today on the Knight Citizen News Network (www.kcnn.org). The guide features a unique interactive map that tells citizens how they can locate open-government
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After the election, news as usual?
Posted by J-Lab on Dec. 3, 2008 in In the News
CNN article about keeping Americans engaged in the political process after the elections have ended.
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Funding for Community News Sites
Posted by J-Lab on Dec. 3, 2008 in Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism is calling for a new round of grant proposals to fund “New Voices” community news start-ups around the country. Eight projects will each receive up to $25,000 in grants during the course of two years. The deadline for this year’s proposals is Feb. 12, 2009. Eligibility
Sites on the rise: Business models remain elusive
Posted by J-Lab on Oct. 27, 2008 in In the News
The Online Journalism Review reports on the state of independent local online news start-ups.
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Playing the News
Posted by J-Lab on Sep. 11, 2008 in Summits
An ONA pre-convention workshop on news games and interactive exercises.
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J-School Entrepreneur Bootcamp
Posted by J-Lab on Sep. 11, 2008 in Summits
Learn how journalism programs around the country are seeding innovative ideas, launching hyperlocal news sites and breeding new media entrepreneurs.
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Wired.com’s WikiScanner Wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Innovation Award
Posted by J-Lab on Sep. 10, 2008 in Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Wired.com’s WikiScanner coverage, which helped readers investigate and expose ego-editing and corporate whitewashing of Wikipedia entries, is this year’s $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Wired.com invited readers to use new technology to get all IP addresses assigned to a particular company, organization or government department,
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2008 Knight-Batten Symposium
Posted by J-Lab on Sep. 8, 2008 in Summits
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Interactivity & Empowerment: Eight Innovators Place in 2008 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations
Posted by J-Lab on Aug. 6, 2008 in Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Four bold, savvy projects – including Web sites that reveal corporate whitewashing of Wikipedia entries, help people map political violence in Kenya, separate fact from falsehood in the 2008 presidential campaign, and deliver hyperlocal coverage of development in the District of Columbia’s most neglected quadrant – are finalists for the Grand Prize
