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Engage Users, Tout Content, Tease Out Contributors J-Lab Reports on Community News Projects
Posted by J-Lab on Sep. 30, 2010 in Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Community news sites should engage, not just inform, their users; ramp up quickly with social media tools; tease out contributors rather than train a corps of citizen journalists in advance; and invest a lot of sweat equity, according to a new J-Lab report culling lessons learned from five years of funding community
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2010 Knight-Batten Symposium
Posted by J-Lab on Sep. 14, 2010 in Summits
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Sunlight Foundation Wins $10,000 Innovations Award; Six Collaboration Pioneers Awarded $1,000 Each
Posted by J-Lab on Sep. 14, 2010 in Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Sunlight Live, the Sunlight Foundation‘s innovative blending of data, streaming video, liveblogging and social networking today was awarded the $10,000 Grand Prize in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Six projects that pioneered unique collaborations to advance digital engagement each received $1,000 Special Distinction Awards. Honored at a morning symposium at
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The New News
Posted by J-Lab on Sep. 3, 2010 in Speeches
Melbourne Writers Festival Closing Address by Jan Schaffer, Sept. 3, 2010
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2010 AEJMC Luncheon
Posted by J-Lab on Aug. 6, 2010 in Summits
Hear stories and updates from five news organizations around the country who are partnering with hyperlocal sites in each of their communities.
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New Philadelphia Enterprise Reporting Fund Offers Ten $5,000 Awards For Collaborative News Projects
Posted by J-Lab on Jul. 22, 2010 in Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Journalists in the Greater Philadelphia region may soon be able to ramp up the level of in-depth, professional reporting with the help of a new experimental journalism fund to nurture public affairs stories and demonstrate the possibilities for collaborative newsgathering and distribution. The Philadelphia Enterprise Reporting Fund will award ten $5,000 reporting
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Knight-Batten awards push collaborative future for news
Posted by J-Lab on Jul. 20, 2010 in In the News
The Guardian lists the journalistic projects that won the 2010 Knight-Batten Innovation Awards.
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2010 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism: Sunlight Foundation Wins Grand Prize
Posted by J-Lab on Jul. 19, 2010 in In the News
2010 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism is mentioned by Social Times.
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Sunlight Live’s Real-Time Participation Wins $10,000 Knight-Batten Innovation Award
Posted by J-Lab on Jul. 19, 2010 in Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Sunlight Live, the Sunlight Foundation‘s innovative blending of data, streaming video, liveblogging and social networking – first used at February’s bipartisan health-care summit – is this year’s $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Sunlight Live attracted nearly 43,000 viewers, 9,800 livebloggers, and more than 1,300 tweets.
