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Building your local tech network: Aug 7 KDMC webinar

Community News Leadership 3.0

Wed, July 24, 2013 | 9:23 a.m. PDT

As digital media and mobile tools become crucial for almost any community engagement effort, you'll need tech allies in your corner. Fortunately you have lots of options to foster valuable relationships with your local tech community. In an upcoming KDMC webinar, Lisa Williams will explain how to make and grow these connections. Here's a sneak peak of her advice...

ProPublica launches free iPhone, iPad magazine

News for Digital Innovators

Wed, July 10, 2013 | 10:54 a.m. PDT

by Amy Gahran

So far ProPublica has been publishing its investigative and data journalism on its own website and through partner news outlets. This week ProPublica launched its own digital magazine -- a strategy worth watching, and perhaps emulating, as the digital (and especially tablet) landscape continues to develop.

Facebook Graph Search: New local insight, connections, privacy concerns

Community News Leadership 3.0

Tue, July 9, 2013 | 7:43 p.m. PDT

by Amy Gahran

This week Facebook rolled out its controversial Graph Search feature to most of its U.S. users. It can be a useful way to find sources and stories related to your community, and gain insight to help you land advertisers and funders. And yes, it can be a little creepy too.

Delving into data for great local economic stories

Community News Leadership 3.0

Wed, June 26, 2013 | 2:59 p.m. PDT

by Amy Gahran

The economy remains a hot topic in many communities, and these stories always come down to numbers. Fortunately there is a great deal of federal, state, and county-level economic data available from a variety of online sources. At this month's Investigative Reporters and Editors conference, a special workshop showed reporters how to discover interesting local stories in economic data -- or use this data to add valuable context to other community coverage.

Knight News Challenge OpenGov winners announced

News for Digital Innovators

Mon, June 24, 2013 | 1:22 p.m. PDT

by Amy Gahran

Today the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced the winners of this year's Knight News Challenge on open government. The winning projects will receive a total of $3.2 million for their ideas.

These projects will provide new tools and approaches to help people interact more effectively with their governments.

The winners are:

Knight Community Information Challenge: Get your last-minute questions answered Friday June 21

News for Digital Innovators

Thu, June 20, 2013 | 1:35 p.m. PDT

by Amy Gahran

The July 1 deadline for the Knight Community Information Challenge is nearly here. If you haven't yet submitted your entry for this competition (which provides matching grants and other support to community and place-based funders of news and information projects), Knight is offering one more chance to get your questions answered.

Neighbor.ly, Sunlight awarded Knight grants

News for Digital Innovators

Wed, June 19, 2013 | 1:07 p.m. PDT

by Amy Gahran

This week the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced two grants for two organizations that can be useful resources for community news, information and engagement efforts.

Beacon, St. Louis Public Radio assess role for merged mission-based newsroom

Community News Leadership 3.0

Tue, June 18, 2013 | 10:00 p.m. PDT

by Sally Duros

St. Louis Public Radio and the St. Louis Beacon hope to create a new mission-based newsroom with the ambitious goal of providing issue–oriented, daily news specifically tailored to the strategic needs of the region — and delivering it through merged radio and digital platforms.