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Chi-Town Daily News/PublicMedia, Inc.

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Chi-Town Daily News/PublicMedia, Inc.

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

Date Awarded: 03/12/2007
Amount: $340,000.00
Grant Period: 03/12/2007 to 03/31/2009
Program: Knight News Challenge
Community: Transformation Fund

The Chi-Town Daily News is an online newspaper written by and for Chicago residents. This grant will create a network of trained citizen journalists to provide coverage of local and hyperlocal news in each of Chicago’s 75 neighborhoods. The volunteer citizen journalists will report on topics of local and citywide interest, like school council meetings, police advisory group meetings and business openings. A core group of editors will train the volunteers and edit copy. The grantee will blog about the project, which aims to establish a model that can be replicated in other cities.

Project Contact:
Website: http://www.chitowndailynews.org

Filed Under: Knight News Challenge Chi-Town Daily News Geoff Dougherty

Other grants to this organization

  • Chi-Town Daily News
    Date Awarded: 11/11/2008
    Amount: $95,000.00
    Grant Period: 12/01/2008 to 06/30/2010
    Program: Journalism
    Community: Journalism
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