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	Knight Foundation	Journalism & Media Innovation Knight Foundation aims to help sustain democracy by leading journalism to its best possible future in the 21st century. We focus on funding Media Innovation, Journalistic Excellence, Freedom of Expression. Media Innovation: Since 2007, Knight has invested more than $100 million in new technologies and techniques, including in more than 200 community news and information experiments. Its media innovation portfolio seeks to improve public media, discover new platforms for investigative reporting, increase digital and media literacy, promote universal broadband access and support a free and open Web.
	CUNY Graduate School Of Journalism	The Master of Arts degree in journalism at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism is an intensive, three-semester program designed to prepare gifted graduate students for a wide variety of careers in the field of journalism.
	The Tow-Knight Center	The Tow-Knight Center In September 2010, the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism established the nation’s most intensive program in entrepreneurial journalism with the creation of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, funded by grants from The Tow Foundation and the Knight Foundation. Under the leadership of the School’s Founding Dean Stephen B. Shepard, the Center’s mission is to help create a sustainable future for quality journalism in three ways: • Educating students and mid-career journalists in innovation, entrepreneurship, and business management; • Researching topics relevant to the development of viable economic models for the new digital media; • Funding, developing, and nurturing new journalistic enterprises. With the support of the Center, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism now offers the first Master of Arts degree in Entrepreneurial Journalism. Candidates for the new degree will take most of the same courses required for the School’s traditional MA in Journalism in their first three semesters and then spend a fourth semester immersed in the School’s intensive Entrepreneurial Journalism Program. Mid-career professionals and other graduate students can also apply to that one-semester program and earn an Advanced Certificate upon successful completion of the course of study. Professor Jeff Jarvis is the Tow-Knight Center’s Director and Jeremy Caplan is its Director of Education.
	CIVIS Medienstiftung	Was will CIVIS? Die CIVIS Medienstiftung will Journalisten und Journalistinnen in Deutschland und Europa für die Themen Integration und kulturelle Vielfalt sensibilisieren. Die Gesellschaft trägt zur interkulturellen Verständigung und zur europäischen Integration durch die Arbeit der elektronischen Medien bei. CIVIS fördert den innovativen und professionellen Umgang mit der Entwicklung in der europäischen Einwanderungsgesellschaft. Den ethnischen, kulturellen und religiösen Wandel als Realität anzunehmen und positiv zu gestalten, ist eine der zentralen Aufgaben der europäischen Gesellschaften und der Politik. Auch der Schutz unserer freiheitlich-demokratischen Grundordnung vor fundamentalistischen oder extremistischen Übergriffen gehört dazu. Die Abbildung der neuen Realität ist Aufgabe der Medien. Migration, Integration und kulturelle Vielfalt prägen immer stärker unseren Alltag. Den Medien kommt dabei eine verantwortungsvolle Aufgabe zu: Sie bilden den gesellschaftlichen Wandel nicht nur ab - sie gestalten ihn auch. Medien bestimmen unser Bild von den aktuellen Entwicklungen und können einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur gesellschaftlichen Integration leisten.

Prototype News Ventures

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	Kaiser Health News	Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit news organization committed to in-depth coverage of health care policy and politics.
	ProPublica	The Mission To expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdoing.

Investigative Journalism

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	Spot.us	What is Spot.us? Spot.Us is an open source project to pioneer "community powered reporting." Through Spot.Us the public can commission and participate with journalists to do reporting on important and perhaps overlooked topics. Contributions are tax deductible and we partner with news organizations to dis
	Media Funders	Die Crowdfunding-Plattform Media Funders Die derzeit im Aufbau begriffene Crowdfunding- & Crowdsourcing-Plattform mediafunders.net wird eine neue und transparente Form von unabhängigem Journalismus ermöglichen. Gemeinsam können interessante Ideen für unabhängige (investigative) Reportagen und Medienprojekte eingebracht und (mit)finanziert werden. Die Crowdfunding-Plattform soll qualitativ hochwertigen, unabhängigen und transparenten Journalismus ermöglichen, frei von jeglichen Vorgaben, Einflussnahmen, Geldgebern, Verlagen, von Zensur und Medium. Das Spektrum für mögliche Projekte reicht dabei von unabhängigen lokalen, nationalen und internationalen Reportagen in Text-, Audio-, Foto- und Video-Formaten, bis hin zu umfangreichen Projekten im Datenjournalismus. Ein Stadtviertel in Berlin, Luzern oder Prag soll ebenso mögliche Recherchezone sein, wie eine Mega-City in den USA, Indien oder Japan, oder ein Bergdorf in Mexiko, Bolivien oder Ruanda.
	jaimelinfo	(Fr, Crow funding for e-news web sites)
	[http://www.emphas.is emphas	(Crowd funding photojournalism)

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Open News

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	Wikinews	Wikinews:Mission statementTo present up-to-date, relevant, newsworthy and entertaining content without bias Wikinews promotes the idea of participatory journalism because of the belief that citizens know what is news like no others. You are invited to join in this effort, and share news that is of interest to you. All Wikinews articles are created by everyday people just like you, from around the globe. The Wikinews project is a free content news source of the Wikimedia Foundation that seeks to provide content, free of charge, where everyone is invited to contribute reports about events large and small, either from direct experience, or summarized from elsewhere. Wikinews is founded on the idea to build a unique news environment to enrich the media landscape. Wikinews' use extends beyond original reports, by providing free, neutral, integrated summaries of the news from elsewhere. It will already be useful even if the subject range covered will be full of gaps—because in these subject areas, we will already benefit from the collaborative wiki model. It will grow to become more useful every day. While Wikinews aims to one day be a useful resource of its own, it will also provide an alternative to proprietary news agencies like the Associated Press or Reuters; that is, it will allow independent media outfits to get a high quality feed of news free of charge to complement their own reporting. Thanks to free content licensing, anyone can create their own free news source—even a non-neutral one—on the basis of this work. There are many challenges. Wikinews adopted the key principles that made Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia websites what they are today: neutral, free content and open decision-making processes.
	Indymedia	About Indymedia The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity. History The Independent Media Center (www.indymedia.org), was established by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists in 1999 for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. The center acted as a clearinghouse of information for journalists, and provided up-to-the-minute reports, photos, audio and video footage through its website. Using the collected footage, the Seattle Independent Media Center (seattle.indymedia.org) produced a series of five documentaries, uplinked every day to satellite and distributed throughout the United States to public access stations. The center also produced its own newspaper, distributed throughout Seattle and to other cities via the internet, as well as hundreds of audio segments, transmitted through the web and Studio X, a 24-hour micro and internet radio station based in Seattle. The site, which uses a democratic open-publishing system, logged more than 2 million hits, and was featured on America Online, Yahoo, CNN, BBC Online, and numerous other sites. Through a decentralized and autonomous network, hundreds of media activists setup independent media centers in London, Canada, Mexico City, Prague, Belgium, France, and Italy over the next year. IMCs have since been established on every continent, with more to come. For more information, see the IMC Frequently Asked Questions.

Global Diaspora Media

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	ALLVOICES	Amra Tareen founds all voices as reaction of 9/11. Since 9/11 every muslim is viewed as terrorist. She wants to include all voices from the all over the islamic world to counter this prejudice. As a woman with a background in computer science, she build a news ventures with strong technology and algorithmic approach: user can posts pics and text on the news site with mobiles. The crowdsourced contents is annotated with tags and a search engine optimize the visibility. Her ventures works without journalists on the basis of a syndication revenue model.
	CGnet Swara	About CGNet Swara CGNet Swara is a voice-based portal, freely accessible via mobile phone, that allows anyon to report and listen to stories of local interest. Reported stories are moderated by journalists and become available for playback online as well as over the phone

Weblinks

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	New Model Journalism	About New Model Journalism provides comment and analysis of the revolution sweeping the media, changing how journalism is paid for and how it is done. With the traditional revenue model failing, the hunt is on for new models to sustain quality journalism. There’s a lot going on – new media technologies and platforms are developing fast, while enterprising individuals and communities are launching start-ups and experimenting with different forms of journalism. Yet opinions diverge widely about the merits of these emerging models, and how far they provide an answer to journalism’s financial woes. It’s our unabashed assumption that finding a lasting solution is about more than just business models. The future shape of the media will determine how far journalism is able to continue its traditional functions of scrutinising the powerful and promoting the debate vital to a democratic society.