Kim Grinfeder | Coconut Grove, Fla. | (786) 553-5392 | E-mail | Inactive
University of Miami visual journalism professor Kim Grinfeder launched a community news site for Coconut Grove, one of Florida’s oldest, but newly gentrifying, communities. News stories and visual documentaries were generated by partners, which include journalism students, the Coconut Grove Collaborative, the CG Homeowners Association (HOATA), a local health clinic and local residents. The site went inactive when it lost university support.
Project Updates
- Grand First Year for the Grand Avenue News ” - When Kim Grinfeder launched Grand Avenue News in September 2009 he deliberated over the right web design and finding the right programmers. But designing and launching the site was the easy part. The real challenges still lay ahead. Early Challenges Early in the game, several University of Miami professors approached Grinfeder, a visual journalism professor, […]
- Bringing a neighborhood together on and off line ” - If you don’t build it, they won’t come. They may or my not come when you do build it. But for Kim Grinfeder of the University of Miami’s School of Communication, the most important thing to get people to start coming to his New Voices’ grantee site, Grand Avenue News, was actually giving his community […]
