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Seungahn Nah, a University of Kentucky professor of Community Communications sought to build a digital neighborhood newspaper covering news and building a sense of community across lines of race, ethnicity and income. The university’s Department of Community and Leadership Development spearheaded the project. Collaboration was sought with the University’s Cooperative Extension Service and the Department of Agricultural Communications, which will launch and maintain the project’s website.
Project Updates
- Embracing the ‘By the People’ Model (November, 2010) - Abraham Lincoln spoke of a long-lasting government by the people and for the people. In the spring of 2008, Seungahn Nah launched an online citizen journalism initiative in Lexington, Ky., with that same ideal — a nonprofit, digital neighborhood newspaper created by the people, for the people. The result was the Lexington Commons, a place […]
- Lexington Commons Focuses on Local Non-Profits (July, 2010) - In the spring of 2008, the Kentucky Citizen Media Project (KCMP), created in part by the University of Kentucky and funded by New Voices, launched an online citizen journalism initiative to give new, diverse voices a local outlet. The goal of Lexington Commons was to encourage dialogue among citizens and build community through digital communication. […]
- After a rocky start, Lexington Commons looks to reconnect with its community (July, 2009) - For The Lexington Commons project, the first months of 2009 were tough ones. A lack of workshop participants and citizen journalists meant the project’s website, which launched in January of 2009, was not able to create much content, according to Seungahn Nah, director of the Kentucky Citizen Media Project. “This fall will see a renewed […]
- Lexington Launch (March, 2009) - The Lexington Commons launched its website in late January 2009. Still a work in progress, the site allows users to navigate in various ways, including by area of town. A map on the home page (www.kylexingtoncommons.org) divides Lexington into quadrants, each of which contains a list of live links to the area’s neighborhoods. The website […]
- Look Out: Lexington Commons is a Comin’ (November, 2008) - When Seungahn Nah got his doctoral degree at the University of Wisconsin, he studied with Lew Friedland, the creator of the Madison Commons, a hyperlocal citizen site funded by New Voices in 2005. Nah was inspired by this model for community news. Now a professor at University of Kentucky, Nah created the Kentucky Citizen Media […]
