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New legal guide for media startups

Community News Leadership 3.0

Wed, March 11, 2015 | 3:13 p.m. PDT

From copyright to shield laws, from privacy to business structure -- the legal concerns of local news startups are at the heart of a new guide from J-Lab and the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, Law for Media Startups.

Collective crowdfunding for journalism: INN test-drives Beacon Reader's Spotlight

News for Digital Innovators

Wed, March 11, 2015 | 12:39 a.m. PDT

by Nancy Yoshihara

Eight state and local independent journalism projects are seeking financial support through a coordinated package of crowdfunding campaigns launched recently by INN.

TrollBusters: Strategies to preserve constructive online discourse

Community News Leadership 3.0

Wed, March 4, 2015 | 11:20 a.m. PST

by Amy Gahran

A team from Ohio University is developing tools and strategies to help online publishers combat trolls -- including at the local community level.

Helpful media panels at SXSW Interactive 2015

News for Digital Innovators

Wed, March 4, 2015 | 9:33 a.m. PST

by Melissa Kaplan

These SXSW Interactive panels cover digital storytelling, privacy, digital ethics, civic hacking and beyond.

Elections the focus of Knight News Challenge 2015: Applications now open

News for Digital Innovators

Wed, February 25, 2015 | 10:00 a.m. PST

by Melissa Kaplan

2016 will be a big election year in the U.S. So this year's Knight News Challenge will focus on ideas to inspire engagement and better inform voters before, during, and after elections. Applications opened today.

Adaptive skills and design thinking work in tandem to address news desert

Community News Leadership 3.0

Mon, February 23, 2015 | 10:17 p.m. PST

by Sally Duros

Incourage team members believe early funding from Ford Foundation to encourage adaptive skills and current funding from the Knight Foundation to apply design thinking are increasing the impact of their work with residents in Wisconsin Rapids. In a way, adaptive skills plowed the ground and fully aerated it so the current human-centered design approach can better take root and transform the people and the culture of the place where they work and live.

As Spot.us ends, insights on community news crowdfunding

Community News Leadership 3.0

Wed, February 18, 2015 | 2:58 p.m. PST

by Amy Gahran

A Knight-supported pioneering project in niche crowdfunding, Spot.us has now officially shut down after being put on hiatus a year ago. But during its six years of operation, it yielded many lessons about what works, and not, for engaging communities to financially support local journalism.

Community news pioneers win J-Lab grants for new startups

News for Digital Innovators

Wed, February 18, 2015 | 10:07 a.m. PST

by Amy Gahran

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