Four pioneering independent community news publishers have won J-Lab's Encore Media Entrepreneur grants. Four media startups proposed by entrepreneurs over age 50 have been awarded $12,000 each through this program.

The winners are:

• Midcentury/Modern, an online magazine "following Boomers into their Third Act," published on the Medium platform by pioneering hyperlocal news entrepreneur Debra Galant (formerly of Baristanet, and now director of the NJ News Commons).
• LP-FM New-Media Newsroom, a new FM and web-streamed radio station serving New Haven, Conn., led by Paul Bass, founder of the New Haven Independent (in partnership with La Voz Hispana, New Haven's Spanish-language weekly paper).
• SoKing Internet Radio, daily hyperlocal newscasts covering South King County near Seattle. Featuring content from South King Media company's six community blogs. This project will be led by Scott Schaefer, founder of the B-Town Blog.
• Encuentros Mortales will be a Spanish-language edition of Fatal Encounters, an online repository of public records and media reports of undocumented people killed during interactions with law enforcement officers along the southern U.S. Led by D. Brian Burghart, editor and publisher of the Reno News & Review, a free alternative weekly paper in Reno, Nev.

The Encore Entrepreneurs grants are part of J-Lab's Masters Mediapreneurs program, with support from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and the Nicholas B. Ottaway Foundation.