Updates

Multimedia Journalism Training Conference Oct. 1 & 2

Post by Whitney Wilcox on August 12th at 2:46pm

The LearningLab, Renaissance Journalism Center's multimedia journalism training conference for the ethnic and community news media, will be held Friday and Saturday, October 1-2, from 9am-4pm at San Francisco State University’s College of Extended Learning, 835 Market Street, San Francisco.

You can register at http://learninglab.eventbrite.com. For more information, please visit our training page.

Five National Nonprofits Awarded New Media Lab Grants

Post by Whitney Wilcox on June 2nd at 1:23pm

Five national nonprofit organizations received New Media Lab grants to incubate and test new ways to engage their audiences in civic dialogue utilizing multimedia tools and Internet technologies. The projects range from an effort to utilize video blogging and diaries to educate Vietnamese Americans about the health problems of Agent Orange in Vietnam to the test of a new Internet video service that would feature the work of non

Renaissance Journalism Center Awards 15 Journalists Vietnam Reporting Fellowships

Post by Whitney Wilcox on May 26th at 10:09am

San Francisco – The Renaissance Journalism Center has chosen 15 top journalists for a reporting fellowship program that will enable them to investigate the toxic legacy left in Vietnam by the use of the herbicide Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.

RJC Awards Grants to Three Bay Area News & Technology Experiments

Post by Whitney Wilcox on February 10th at 1:58pm

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:

Ethnic media offered as model for mainstream meda

Post by Jon Funabiki on December 22nd at 1:19pm

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Writing for the Online Journalism Review, Sandra Ordonez notes that the ethnic news media not only focus on niche audiences, but also serve as "an important community nexus." It's a recipe that might help the struggling mainstream news media. See her post, "Ethnic media's four-step model for the news industry's future."

Renaissance Journalism Center joins national experiment in journalism

Post by Jon Funabiki on December 2nd at 6:28pm

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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.

Cash prize for terrific public interest journalism offered

Post by Jon Funabiki on November 12th at 12:16pm

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The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University invites applications for The Reporting Award of 2010 for a significant work of journalism in any medium on an under-reported topic in the public interest. The winning applicant would receive $2,500 when chosen and $10,000 when the project is completed.

Experiment by Phoenix-area newspaper fails

Post by Jon Funabiki on November 11th at 11:15pm

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Poynter Institute analyst Rick Edmonds analyzes why a shift to three-days-a-week publication didn't save the East Valley Tribune in the suburban Phoenix area. Edmonds says the paper is one of several attempting to shift to web-only publication by first cutting back on the print edition. Newspaper officials told Edmonds that they needed more time for the experiment to work. Check out Edmonds' story here.

Renaissance Journalism Center launches grants program

Post by Jon Funabiki on October 29th at 8:25pm

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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.

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.