Participatory Journalism

The Role of New Media Makers in Informing the Public

McLean, VA: Library Closing

McLean Ear: New VenueFound

J-Learning.org: Site in a Box

News Ecosystem > New Players

  Fact entrepreneurs

  Creative technologists

  Citizen media makers

  Philanthropic foundations

  Universities

  Advocacy Groups

  Government

Venues for Participation: Journalism vs. “News Work”

Journalism:

Collecting, validating,

producing, publishing news

“News Work” – not just for journos  Sharing information

 Facilitating conversations

 Crowdsourcing stories

 Smart curation & aggregation

 Data mining & visualizations

 News games

 Lists & resources

 Social shout outs

Community News Start-ups

Since 2005, J-Lab has:

  Funded more than 45 “New Voices” community news projects

  $25K grants: $17K + $8K, if matched

  1,534 applications

Success through the years

…we’ve seen some great projects.

Newest trend: Pro-jo’s launching news sites

  Hyperlocal Startups

  State-based Investigative News Sites

  Niche Sites

West Seattle Blog

Davidson News

Metropolis

CaliforniaWatch

WisconsinWatch

Investigate West

Metro News Sites

Fact Entrepreneurs

Advocacy Journalism: Sunlight Foundation - transparency

Council on Foreign Relations – global hot spots

Public School News

University – Community News

Networked Journalism

  Citizen Media Resources   KCNN.org - Knight Citizen News Network   J-Learning.org - How-to publish   J-NewVoices.org - Folo startups   J-Lab.org - Cool ideas   NewMediaWomen.org – Grants