Knight Foundation

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Chi-Town Daily News

Chi-Town Daily News

Date Awarded
03/12/07
Amount
$340,000
Grant Period
03/12/07 to 03/31/11
Focus Area
Journalism & Media Innovation
Initiative
Knight News Challenge

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Knight News Challenge Winner Jeff Dougherty (2007) from Knight Foundation on Vimeo.

To create a new, low-cost model for training citizen journalist in every neighborhood of a major city to contribute to a citywide news site

The Chi-Town Daily News will recruit and train a network of 75 citizen journalists – one in each Chicago neighborhood. The journalists will work with editors to produce a professional, comprehensive daily local news report.

Goals: “A daily online news report written by citizen journalists that has more scope and depth than the coverage you find in many large newspapers.”

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Project Team

Geoff Dougherty

founding editor

Geoff Dougherty is the founding editor of ChiTownDailyNews.org and the . He was an investigative reporter at the Chicago Tribune, and served in similar roles at the Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times. He has 14 years of journalism experience and has won numerous awards for his work. While at the Miami Herald, Dougherty played a key role in the newspaper’s effort to review, count and analyze discarded ballots from the 2000 presidential election. He is a graduate of Colorado College.

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