PJNetPublic Journalism NetworkNeed Journalism Funds, See a Community Foundation Now- June 30, 2008 Starting now community foundations can begin to apply for the five-year, $24-million Knight Community Information Challenge. So maybe if you, as a local citizen journalist, have an idea that could use funding this might be a very good time to drop by and see your local community foundation, which might not have a clue and ...http://pjnet.org/post/1811/ Big Think Videos, Easy for Citizens to Duplicate- June 29, 2008 Big Think has taken a video camera and interviewed hundreds of experts, just a straight on head shot in the tradition of Errol Morris. Even the Washington Post has started to pick them up for its web pages. It is a simple kind of journalism that any citizen can do and because they are straight-on ...http://pjnet.org/post/1810/ Stony Brook Dean on Teaching Journalism Literacy- June 28, 2008 Howard Schneider is talking about how he teachesnews literacy to all students not just journalism students at Stony Brook. It is excellent presentation and worth watching now as a livestream, but will be archived and worth listening toby anyone interested in the future of journalism. Here is more about himfrom the Sharing the News program at ...http://pjnet.org/post/1809/ Livestreaming: New England News Forum Sharing News- June 28, 2008 I am in Lowell, Mass. for the: New England News Forum and the law firm of Prince, Lobel, Glovsky &038; Tye, LLP present a unique, one-day workshop, &8220;Sharing the News: Fresh Approaches to Reaching Students and Training Citizens.&8221; Designed for New England college journalism educators, high-school newspaper advisors and journalism teachers, citizen journalists and bloggers, the ...http://pjnet.org/post/1808/ Spot.us Builds Relationship with Representative Journalism- June 27, 2008 David Cohn and I have been exchanging ideas for months about his Spot.us project for funding journalism projects and my Representative Journalism project for getting communities journalists. Now both of us are moving from the talking stages to the action stages. Both Spot.us and the RepJ.Net have been funded. Now the RepJ.Net is about ready ...http://pjnet.org/post/1807/ ProPublica Is Great, But Lets Advocate for Much More- June 26, 2008 In a PBS NewsHour report focused on nonprofit funding of the news, especially ProPublica for investigative reporting, Alex Jones, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, says: I&8217;ve been watching ProPublica. I think ProPublica is a great development in this area. But I am saddened by something ...http://pjnet.org/post/1806/ |