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February 10, 2010

RJC Awards Grants to Three Bay Area News & Technology Experiments

The Renaissance Journalism Center has awarded $20,000 grants to three Bay Area projects to test innovative models for gathering and distributing community news. The grants represent the first awards under the Center’s Media Greenhouse, which are designed to strengthen community and ethnic news media outlets and the groups they serve.

Recipients of the awards include:

 

Grants

Media Greenhouse Grants

The Media Greenhouse supports ethnic media, community media, and nonprofit groups in an effort to incubate and test innovative models for gathering and distributing news. This support includes grants, technical assistance and training for news organizations. The goal is to foster growth and improvement in journalism. All projects awarded the grant will share what is learned with the greater journalism and philantrhopic communities.

 

Training

The Renaissance Journalism Center offers an annual series of classes, workshops and conferences providing training in journalism, multimedia skills, online practices, newsroom management, business development and other topics.

 

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As the United States becomes more diverse and the media undergo revolutionary and unpredictable change, San Francisco State University’s Department of Journalism has created an interdisciplinary center to identify and spark promising new journalistic models and practices that serve, strengthen and empower communities.

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