Programs
Since its inception in 2009, the Renaissance Journalism Center has sought to spark promising new journalistic models, storytelling methods and other media practices that serve and strengthen our communities. Our recent accomplishments and programs include:
- LearningLab is our multimedia training component, designed to help journalists in the ethnic and community media, as well as nonprofit professionals, learn new practices in storytelling, multimedia, social networking and business operations.
- The Vietnam Reporting Project is a groundbreaking journalism fellowship program that produced powerful, award-winning multimedia news coverage on the enduring legacy of Agent Orange contamination in Vietnam.
- Online Community Building and Health is a collaborative project with USC Annenberg's California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship that aims to educate bloggers and online news editors on critical community health issues, as well as on social media strategies to build audience and promote community engagement.
- New Media Lab & Incubator was a yearlong pilot project that provided grants and technical assistance to five nonprofit organizations, enabling them to test and experiment with innovative ways to utilize journalism, media and social media tools to engage audiences in civic dialogue.
- Media Greenhouse provides support, grants, technical assistance, and training to ethnic media, community media and nonprofit groups in an effort to spark and test new models for gathering and distributing news.