Jeff South | Richmond, VA | E-mail | Inactive
Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of Mass Communications worked with the Fulton Hill Neighborhood Resource Center to help local residents produce stories, photos, audio, video for a website covering Fulton Hill, a low-income neighborhood in Richmond, VA. The university eventually turned the site over to the community, but it is now inactive.
2007 grantee Jeff South talks about the creation of site content, advertising to generate a greater audience and the support of New Voices. This interview took place on April 5, 2008, at the New Voices 2007 Grantee Meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn in Washington, D.C.
Project Updates
- GreaterFultonNews.org grows into the future (August, 2009) - By Tom Regan, J-Lab correspondent If you want a measure of just how much GreaterFultonNews.org has grown in a little more than a year, you just need to look at the number of unique visitors to the site over that period. In July, 2008, 511 visitors came to the site. One year later, that number […]
- Citizen Journalism – Citizen Action (August, 2008) - GreaterFultonNews.org has taken one small step for citizen journalism, but a giant leap for its community. It has hired its first part-time administrator. She’s local resident and graphic designer Vicki Mallonee, whose job is to post, post, post – blogs, photos, other content – monitor citizen contributions, and make improvements to the overall design. A […]
- Building Capacity for Change (March, 2008) - “This is not a newspaper or magazine. We are a neighborhood news blog, a grassroots publication with no staff reporters or editors. We are dependent on readers and contributors for all of our content.” So begins Greater Fulton News’ call for community volunteers. “We would especially like to find someone to report on events at […]
- Fulton: Full Steam Ahead (November, 2007) - A new citizen-fueled news site for Fulton Hill is set to officially launch in December 2007. Since May, the team from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has met regularly with representatives of the Greater Fulton Hill neighborhood to build a trusting relationship while developing a plan for the site. At VCU, participating faculty divvied up responsibilities […]
