The J-Lab announced its New Voices grants earlier this week. Seven of the funded projects have university connections, some of which will use student resources to reach out to community members to help produce hyperlocal news.
Press release paraphrasing J-Lab director Jan Schaffer says:
Of particular note this year was the number of journalism schools […]
Jason Calacanis, co-founded of Weblogs Inc., which he was sold to AOL, and Alan Meckler, who is chief executive of Jupitermedia Inc., have a debate over whether money can be made by blogging.
Calancanis says yes, Meckler says no. Read the debate — I like the Wall Street Journal format, better than the content of this […]
Turn to Google Maps Mania to see how people are using the Google mapping possibilities. Includes everything from restuarants to San Francisco earthquake.
Here is a story at News.com on using these mapping mashups for fund and profit.
I tried my own mapping at Platial , which I want to show here, but alas I can’t […]
Gary Schwitzer, publisher of the HealthNewsReview.org and faculty member of the Health Journalism program at the University of Minnesota, writes:
HealthNewsReview.org is an attempt to help improve the accuracy, balance and completeness of news stories that make claims about new ideas in health care. It is not intended to belittle the hard work of well-intentioned journalists. […]
Red Herring Reports:
Web publisher Backfence bought a struggling citizen journalism web site in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday with an eye on the regionâs alluring but elusive cache of local advertising dollars.
While Backfence didnât say how much it paid for Bayosphere, a nearly two-year-old site founded by a former journalist for the […]
Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.