Journalism

The Renaissance Journalism Center has joined a national initiative designed to demonstrate how nonprofit organizations can produce new forms of journalistic content that put them in "conversation" with their communities.

The five national nonprofit organizations participating in the project will be developing media programs that could be delivered via a variety of platforms, such as television, the web and mobile cellphones.  The experiments also will make extensive use of new technologies and social media tools  to create interactive elements.

Newsgathering and distribution with mobile phones? Training citizen journalists? Experimenting with new business models? The Renaissance Journalism Center is currently inviting organizations to apply for funding that supports their efforts to deliver news and information to audiences. We will select up to three projects in 2009. Each project may receive up to $20,000 to launch projects beginning in 2010.

Associated Press chief Tom Curley says that there currently is an "oversupply" in the news business.  "This is a moment of tyranny in the marketplace," he told journalists during a visit to the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents' Club.  Read the Nieman Journalism Lab story.

The Capacity Building for Journalism professional network, created with support from the John S. & James L. Knight

Foundation, provides resources and a networking forum for journalism organizations. The organization serves as a