Susan Fleischmann | Cambridge, MA | (617) 661-6900 | E-mail | Twitter | Website
An innovative citizen journalism initiative spearheaded by Cambridge Community Television that empowers local residents to bring attention to issues in their Cambridge, MA, community that they deem newsworthy. NeighborMedia’s citizen journalists, based in various Cambridge zip codes, combined web and television media to promote community events, alert neighbors to proposed development, and explore difficult issues like violence and racism. NeighborMedia content is available for viewing on the web at www.ccvcambridge.org/neighbormedia and on CCTV’s community cable channels.
2007 grantees Julie Adler and Clodagh Rule of NeighborMedia discuss the rewards of their program. 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
- Blogging From the Backyard (August, 2009) - “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but at Cambridge Community Television, you can take Cambridge residents out of their neighborhood meetings and into the digitally dominated 21st century.” So begins a glowing article about CCTV’s NeighborMedia in Wicked Local. The piece profiled NeighborMedia’s Karen Klinger, a longtime journalist who resigned from the board […]
- Robust Contributions from Citizen Journalists Pave the Way for New Website Design (August, 2009) - As Cambridge Community Television’s NeighborMedia project moves into its third year, NeighborMedia journalists are more active than ever, covering a wide range of stories using television and the Web. CCTV originally received New Voices funding in 2007 to plan and implement the Neighbor-to-Neighbor project, now known as NeighborMedia. By embedding citizen journalists in each of […]
- Building Skills and Community (March, 2008) - Since September 2007, Cambridge Community Television’s NeighborMedia project has been giving its six citizen journalists the tools they need to cover the homefront. A new Blogging 101 class is assisting reporters in strengthening their posts. And reporters have been using CCTV’s easy-to-use BeLive set to host discussions about local concerns. In fact, between November and […]
- Lights! Camera! InterAction! (November, 2007) - Over the last few months, Cambridge Community Television (CCTV) staff has been implementing a comprehensive outreach plan, hiring a project coordinator, recruiting 7 citizen journalists, and a team of news correspondents for Neighbor to Neighbor, newly renamed NeighborMedia. CCTV has promoted the program to city departments and community organizations that are searching for ways to […]
