- New Voices Site Sees Strong Content and Bottom Line Growth (October, 2011) - Stories about financial success and strong content top the latest news from our New Voices grantees.
- Twitter Modules on KCNN (October, 2008) - 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.
- Limiting Legal Risk (April, 2008) - 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.
- Communities Find New Voices, One at a Time (August, 2005) - As the 2005 New Voices grantees make progress recruiting volunteers, launching Web sites and building studios, they bring promise of citizens media outlets to their communities.
- Readers Share Experiences, Make News (June, 2005) - MSNBC, the BBC and other traditional newsrooms are eliciting reader responses on their Web sites to capture news moments from a citizens' lens.
- From Town Blog to Town Hall (April, 2005) - Northfield.org's Civic Blogosphere Project encourages public officials to join in digital debate.
- Online and in Print in Small-Town Maine (March, 2005) - "Take it Online" links in VillageSoup's newspapers drive readers to deeper content, including photo galleries, on the Web.
- Blogger Corps Delivers Greensboro101 (February, 2005) - Greensboro101.com assembles local news from a corps of community bloggers.
- An Old West Newspaper Adds New Media Features (February, 2005) -
One of the oldest newspapers west of the Mississippi is home to some of the newest ideas in community journalism.
The 155-year-old Santa Fe New Mexican is trying to collapse the gap between readers and reporters by allowing readers to attach blog-style comments to all the news stories posted on its FreeNewMexican.com site.
- With Pluck and Legwork, Getting The Stories First (January, 2005) - Coastsider.com combines newspaper-style reporting with a blog's first-person perspective.
- For a Veteran Journalist, a New Town Crier Role (January, 2005) - WestportNow.com: Veteran journalist Gordon Joseloff's one-man operation posts news and photos -- and competes with three newspapers in his hometown, Westport, Conn.
- Massachusetts Site Evolves from E-mail Listserv (January, 2005) - LiveFromArlington grew from its founder’s e-mail listserv for Arlington, Mass.
- News Lurks in FredTalk’s 60 Message Boards (January, 2005) - FredTalk.com, a Free Lance-Star initiative, uses bulletin boards to let Fredricksburg, Va., residents swap goods, trade tips and sound off on issues.
- Make-Your-Own Media Fills the News Gaps in Town (January, 2005) - iBrattleboro.com, an all-volunteer enterprise, is a forum for community activism.
- From a Traditional Newspaper, an Untraditional Community Site (January, 2005) - NorthwestVoice, launched by a newspaper and populated by the community, also has a biweekly print edition.
- Written by the Community; Edited by Journalists (January, 2005) - MyMissourian unites journalism’s news judgment with people’s storytelling skills.
- Building a Site is Easy Clicking with the Community is Not (January, 2005) - GoSkokie was built in just 11 weeks, with almost no budget, by six Northwestern grad students to serve Skokie, Ill.
- Using Cell Phones as Neighborhood Tour Guides (December, 2004) - Murmur lets visitors take a cell phone walking tour and hear narrated mini-stories about neighborhoods in three Canadian cities.
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New Voices is an initiative of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. J-LabTM is journalism catalyst. It jumpstarts new ideas, identifies what works, creates new knowledge and shares it, through training and consulting, with news organizations, media entrepreneurs, journalism educators and others.
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