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Philadelphia Neighborhoods.com is now a full-blown publication of Temple University’s Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab created by students covering more than 75 of the city’s neighborhoods. It began as an effort to cover hyperlocal news in the city’s largely Hispanic 5th Street Corridor between Lehigh and Hunting Park Avenues. The site is now a cornerstone of Temple’s Department of Journalism. It actively partners with Al Dia, neastphilly.com, technicallyphilly.com, WHYY and planphilly.com
Project Updates
- Philadelphia Neighborhoods Adds New Editions in Four Communities (March, 2012) - Philadelphia Neighborhoods has launched four new Facebook pages to focus on specific communities. Following are the new online editions, which will have news and information from these neighborhoods: The Brewerytown Times at facebook.com/brewerytowntimes The Hunting Park Times at facebook.com/huntingparktimes The Kensington Journal at facebook.com/kensingtonjournal The Strawberry Mansion Times at facebook.com/strawberrymansiontimes Read the full article.
- MURL Expands Mission to Include Training and Community Media (July, 2009) - By Tom Regan, J-Lab correspondent Linn Washington Jr., co-director of the Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab (MURL) of Temple University’s Department of Journalism reports that its 2006 New Voices grant helped MURL substantially grow its on-campus and off-campus missions. MURL is now regularly involved in using its resources of students, technical expertise and multimedia equipment to assist […]
- MURL: Freedom and Speech (October, 2008) - The New Voices project at Temple University’s Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab (MURL) has new leadership and a new focus. Community journalism veteran and professor Linn Washington is now at the helm and his vision for the project is to reach out to Philadelphia’s growing ex-offender community and give them the tools to commit random acts […]
- MURL: Building Community and Cultural Competency (November, 2007) - Over the past year, MURL students have produced more than a hundred pieces of journalism — from brief vignettes to extensive multimedia packages — covering nearly two dozen neighborhoods in Philadelphia. ”Our students have amassed an impressive list of stories,” says Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab (MURL) director Tom Petner of the Temple University Journalism Department. […]
- Digital Cameras will Seed Datacasts (April, 2007) - Throughout the spring, preparations were underway to set up innovative datacasting sites that will allow community members to both receive and upload their news about communities in Philadelphia’s so-called “golden block.” Tom Petner, director of Temple University’s Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab (MURL), has worked with technicians from WHYY public television to get datacast receive sites […]
- Building Blocks Project Launches (November, 2006) - The Building Blocks project is on the Web. The bulk of the stories and multimedia projects by Temple’s Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab class hit the site in late November and early December. Installation also has begun of two datacast receivers in Philadelphia’s golden block neighborhoods. Thomas Petner, director of MURL, writes in his progress report […]
- Temple’s MURL Launches “Building Blocks” Blog (August, 2006) - After months of planning, the content stage of Temple University’s “Building Blocks” project is beginning to get off the ground and students were busy compiling stories on designated communities. The first months of the project were rooted in the building phase, with logistics, accounting and equipment issues taking up the bulk of director Thomas Petner’s […]
