A Fresh Start
I could begin by reciting in mind-numbing detail my experience running The Next Newsroom Project. There have frustrations (many); there…
Getting Started at EveryBlock
With my News Challenge grant, I’m starting a project called EveryBlock that aggregates local news for specific cities. We’ve been…
An “Outsider’s” Perspective
When I found out that I won the “First Annual News Challenge” I wasn’t sitting in an editor’s office or…
From Community Newspapers to Community Hosts
VillageSoup is one of the James S. and John L. Knight Foundation’s first year’s recipients of a Knight Brothers News…
Center for Locative Media Launches Beta Site
Center for Locative Media has launched its beta site. Leslie Rule, co-director of the Center quipped, “I’ve birthed babies and…
Innovation Incubator Heads to Toronto for the Online News Association Conference
It’s been an extraordinarily challenging five months, and the students who have been working on the Innovation Incubator project are…
Old Timers React to the 7th Street Video Game
A big concern we had when we started our Remembering 7th Street video game project was how older people who…
History and Heritage Through Video Games
Can new technologies be used to tell old stories about a local community? That’s the question we’re trying to answer…
New Media Reality Check
The Knight News Challenge folks will be heading off to the Online News Association conference in Toronto on Tuesday (Oct.…
Our Internet Obsession with Missing People Goes Too Far
Reading online news is a great way to stay constantly updated on what’s going on in the world without having…