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Stamen Design Wins a $400,000 Grant for New User-Generated Data-Viz Project

The San Francisco designers known for their urban mapping and data visualization projects won the top grant from the Knight Foundation for their new concept CityTracking.READ»

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Getting Local: The Future of the Web?

Where do you get your local news these days? With more and more newspapers going bankrupt or cutting staff, it seems like the web is more and more the only place to get info about what's going on in your neighborhood/town/city. Loads ...READ»

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Cool Projects That Can Change the World

Knight Foundation News Challenge "You invent it. We fund it." This is the Knight Foundations News Challenge slogan which will award $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news and ...READ»

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Community Funded Reporting and Journalists as Entrepreneurs

I blog consistently about our desire as media and PR pros to change and adapt to social media. An inspiring example is that of David Cohn and his new venture Spot.us- community funded reporting. Here's a synopsis from Cohn on the ...READ»

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Community Funded Reporting and Journalists as Entrepreneurs

I blog consistently about our desire as media and PR pros to change and adapt to social media. An inspiring example is that of David Cohn and his new venture Spot.us- community funded reporting. Here's a synopsis from Cohn on the ...READ»

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If We Did Not Build it, They Would Not Come: Citizen Journalism is Discovered - The Harsh Reality of the New World Media

Over the past two years, the way in which American's receive their news has changed. No longer does the father come home, kick off his shoes, and read the day’s events in the local newspaper such as THE NEWARK ADVOCATE, A Gannett Publication, based in Newark, Ohio. America, The way media in America is being distriputed arounnd the world is no longer in the hands of "The Editorial Board" but YOU, The American Citizen Journalist, From RobertPaisola.com READ»

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Feedback

Celebrating Design "Creative people should always try to do things they can't do," Marcel Wanders told guests at Fast Company's Masters of Design party in New York. "That's when creativity is needed." But what can design do, asked ...READ»

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Addison Berry, Documentation Team Lead for Drupal

Since joining the Drupal community in 2006, the open-source advocate has become a prominent presence: traveling the world to speak at events (from local high schools to international conferences); leading a group of codehead volunteers in logging all things Drupal; and, in 2009, snagging a Knight Foundation grant to improve Drupal documentation.READ»

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Will NPR Save the News?

The most successful hybrid of old and new media comes from the last place you'd expect. How NPR's digital smarts, nonprofit structure, and good old-fashioned shoe leather just might save the news.READ»

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Social Justice - Alan Khazei and Vanessa Kirsch

"If you are exposed directly to an injustice or need, you want to do something about it."READ»