Community news ventures are here to stay

Posted by Catherine Stifter  January 10, 2008

J-lab Executive Director Jan Schaffer writes about the value of community news ventures funded by New Voices. She shares findings from a j-lab report that surveyed 191 citizen media participants and conducted in-depth interviews of the founders of 31 Web sites.

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Read the article, as published in Winter 2007 Neiman Reports.

Tags: hyperlocal news, Institute for Interactive Journalism, j-lab
Topics: Community Media, Journalism, Media distribution, Media production, News, Partnerships, Storytelling, Training