Renaissance Journalism Center joins national experiment in 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.

The five nonprofits are the National Civic League, National Wildlife Federation, Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, Mother Jones and Free Speech TV.

The project has been developed by a consortium of donors:  Instructional Telecommunications Foundation, Chicago Instructional Technology Foundation, Denver Area Education Telecommunications Consortium, Portland Regional Education Telecommunications Corporation and Twin Cities Telecommunications Group.

The project was launched with a Visioning Summit on Nov. 23 and 24 in San Francisco.