PJNet » J-lab http://pjnet.org Public Journalism Network Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:04:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 New Media Women Entrepreneurs Grants Given http://pjnet.org/post/1831/ http://pjnet.org/post/1831/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:18:49 +0000 Leonard Witt http://pjnet.org/?p=1831 This was announced today: Three entrepreneurial news ideas were selected from 190 entries as the winners of $10,000 each in the first McCormick Foundation New Media Women Entrepreneurs competition:

  • Echo, a system of public storytelling installations in Atlanta. Led by Lila King and Karyn Lu, movers behind CNN’s user-generated site iReport.com.
  • Latina Voices, a news site for and by Latinas. Led by Teresa Puente, a journalism professor at Columbia College Chicago and member of the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board.
  • Northwest Navy News, a networking site for Puget Sound’s military community. Led by Elaine Helm Norton, new media editor at The Daily Herald in Everett, Wash., and a former military beat reporter.

You can learn lots more about the competition here.

]]> http://pjnet.org/post/1831/feed/ 0 Amy Gahran Outlines Journalism’s Future http://pjnet.org/post/1642/ http://pjnet.org/post/1642/#comments Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:55:59 +0000 Leonard Witt http://pjnet.org/post/1642/ Amy Gahran has an excellent outline of the ties between mainstream journalism and participatory journalism and their futures.  Here are some of the outline headings: 

What’s the point of news? Why do people want & need news? What do people do with news? Breaking out of the story format. Where do we go from here?

It is worth a read. Embedded in the outline  post is a half-hour video by Jan Schaffer, which is worth a view, but only if  J-Labs’ work is new to you.

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