Blog: About “Related Items,” a module for the community-oriented and open-source content management system, Drupal, which enables people to quickly and easily connect any item (news, idea, group, event) to any other content they consider related.
To plan an “ideal newsroom” for the digital news era and create an online resource for student newspapers and other news organizations looking to bring their facilities up to date with new media trends.
Organization:
The Chronicle, the student paper of Duke University
Over the past two years, Global Voices has introduced readers around the world to the brilliant, funny, insightful and touching voices of bloggers from developing nations. Rising Voices is our new effort to introduce thousands of new developing world bloggers to the world, helping students, journalists, activists and people from rural areas to the blogosphere.
Organization:
Global Voices, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
Gotham Gazette will develop games to inform and engage players about key issues confronting New York City. Gotham Gazette will hold forums on the games’ issues, report on what solutions the players developed and relay those ideas to city officials.
Posted on 15. Apr, 2008 by robertson.adams in 2007, David Ardia
Amount:
$ 250,000
Location:
Cambridge, Mass.
The Citizen Media Law Project, a joint venture between Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Center for Citizen Media, is creating a set of online resources for citizen journalists. This will include state and federal legal guides; advice on business formation; and a database of lawsuits, subpoenas and legal threats involving citizen media.
Organization:
Citizen Media Law Project, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School, and the Center for Citizen Media
The Chi-Town Daily News will recruit and train a network of 75 citizen journalists – one in each Chicago neighborhood. The journalists will work with editors to produce a professional, comprehensive daily local news report.
To support the development of media entrepreneurship and the creation of new digital media products through the establishment of the Knight-Kauffman Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University.
Organization:
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University
Playing the News is a news simulation environment which lets citizens play through a complex, evolving news story through interaction with the newsmakers.
Organization:
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota
To plan an “ideal newsroom” for the digital news era and create an online resource for student newspapers and other news organizations looking to bring their facilities up to date with new media trends.
