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Mosaic is a website created by the University of Nebraska’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications to give voice and provide resources for Lincoln’s fast-growing community of immigrants and ethnic minorities. Content comes from students and community members.
Project Updates
- New Grants Take Mosaic in New Directions (June, 2011) - By the end of its first year, The Mosaic project had brought in an additional $50,000 in grants to train Lincoln’s immigrant community to produce content for the website and to increase the flow of information to and from the city’s large refugee community. Despite a heart attack that waylaid project leader Tim Anderson mid-way […]
- Mosaic Launches in Just One Semester (December, 2010) - In just one semester, students and faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications have researched, built, populated and marketed a website designed for the Midwest city’s booming refugee populations. Advertising students took the lead in researching the three target communities: Karen refugees from Burma and refugees from Iraq and Sudan. […]
- Lincoln’s New Voices: A Welcome Addition (September, 2010) - When launching a news site that covered the refugee community of Lincoln, Neb., professor Tim Anderson at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications expected his team of students to be seen as unwelcome outsiders. Instead, Lincoln’s New Voices has been met with nothing but enthusiasm, he reports. “Perhaps I am too […]
- Iterating to Find What Works (June, 2010) - By Tim Anderson Editor Nebraska Mosaic has become an important part of the advanced journalism curriculum at U-Nebraska’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications. More to the point, it’s a voice that represents Lincoln’s growing refugee communities. We started out as a small project, and, though we continue to grow, we remain a small project. […]
