1. Participatory Journalism
The Role of New Media Makers
in Informing the Public

2. McLean, VA: Library Closing

3. McLean Ear: New VenueFound

4. J-Learning.org: Site in a Box

5. News Ecosystem > New Players
 Fact entrepreneurs
 Creative technologists
 Citizen media makers
 Philanthropic foundations
 Universities
 Advocacy Groups
 Government

6. Venues for Participation:
Journalism vs. “News Work”
Journalism:
Collecting, validating,
producing, publishing news

7. “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

8. 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

9. Success through the years
…we’ve seen
some great
projects.

10. Newest trend: Pro-jo’s
launching news sites
 Hyperlocal Startups
 State-based Investigative
News Sites
 Niche Sites

11. West Seattle Blog

12. Davidson News

13. Metropolis

14. CaliforniaWatch

15. WisconsinWatch

16. Investigate West

17. Metro News Sites

18. Fact Entrepreneurs

19. Advocacy Journalism:
Sunlight Foundation - transparency

20. Council on Foreign Relations – global hot spots

21. Public School News

22. University – Community News

23. Networked Journalism

25.  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