Community News Commons

For Community News Commons, a grassroots project to engage, mentor, train and empower citizen journalists

CitizenAtlas

For CitizenAtlas, a digital tool to help real people tell real stories based off of public data

Charlottesville Tomorrow

To add an engagement editor to the successful Charlottesville Tomorrow hyper-local news site

Grow Citizen Journalism

For the Grow Citizen Journalism Project to engage diverse communities in environmental information and action using mobile media tools, targeted messaging, and training in citizen journalism

Colorado Data Commons

For Colorado Data Commons to take public data and make it easy for citizens to access and use

Mobile Vote App

For a mobile voter app, to connect Latinos to voter registration information

TheNewsOutlet.org

For the TheNewsOutlet.org, a multimedia investigative journalism project run by college students and professional editors

Dakotafire Media

For Dakotafire Media, an alliance of journalists from 29 rural community newspapers who will share a virtual newsroom to improve coverage of regional issues

Increasing rural access to information

To increase access to information on jobs, technology and entrepreneurship in rural communities

North Country Public Radio

To support the North Country Public Radio expansion of regional broadcast and digital news/information services

School Board Coverage

To provide greater transparency and accountability in charter schools by using college journalism students to tweet from and write on board meetings of over 40 independently run charter schools

Refugee Storytelling

To use journalism students to work with refugee communities to tell their stories in videos and post them online