[IMC-US] grants for seeding community media

[sheri at speakeasy.org]

i am not sure where to send this, but since it is just for u.s.-based orgs, it made sense to post here.  

sheri

-----Original Message-----
From: Sasha Costanza-Chock [mailto:schock at riseup.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 3, 2004 06:37 PM
To: activist at mediatank.org
Subject: [MediaAct] [Fwd: Fwd: University of Maryland Receives $1 Million From Knight  Foundation]


>
>October 27, 2004
>
>University of Maryland Receives $1 Million From Knight Foundation
>
>The <http://www.umd.edu/>University of Maryland in College Park has 
>announced a $1 million grant from the Miami-based 
><http://www.knightfdn.org/>John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to 
>launch a program to seed community news ventures around the country via 
>the university's <http://www.j-lab.org/>Institute for Interactive Journalism.
>
>Over the next two years, New Voices, as the project is called, will help 
>fund twenty local news project start-ups; support them with an educational 
>Web site developed in collaboration with the Poynter Institute's 
><http://www.newsu.org/>News University; and help foster their 
>sustainability through small second-year grants.
>
>With support from Knight, J-Lab: the Institute for Interactive Journalism, 
>which is housed at UM's <http://www.journalism.umd.edu/>Philip Merrill 
>College of Journalism, will call for proposals from nonprofit and 
>education institutions with new ideas for distributing news and 
>information. A national advisory board will award the seed grants of 
>$12,000 to $17,000 to the winning applicants. The grant from Knight also 
>will be used to support the continuation of J-Lab's 
><http://www.j-lab.org/batten.html>Batten Awards and Symposium for 
>Innovations in Journalism, which reward creative news practices that 
>engage people in public issues.
>
>"The Internet has created the opportunity for alternatives to mainstream 
>journalism," said journalism school dean Tom Kunkel. "New Voices will be 
>an exciting effort to incubate a new kind of community news, and in the 
>process encourage greater civic engagement."
>
>"The newest forms of news serve us best when they honor the oldest values 
>of good journalism," added Eric Newton, Knight Foundation director of 
>journalism initiatives. "We hope this experiment helps us find new ways 
>for people to engage in an accurate, fair, contextual search for the truth."
>
><http://j-lab.org/newvoices_pr.html>$1 Million to Launch Community News 
>Ventures.University of Maryland Press Release 10/25/04.
>
>__________________________
>Allison Corley Price
>Research Analyst
>Alumni Affairs and Development
>Cornell University
>55 Brown Road
>Ithaca, NY 14850-1266
>Phone: 607-254-6153
>Fax: 607-254-7166
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