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Northern Arizona team launches emergency alerts service

Community News Leadership 3.0

Wed, May 1, 2013 | 10:00 p.m. PDT

It's live! After 8 months of planning and development, e928.org, Northern Arizona’s Free Mobile Service for Local Emergency News and Information, is live on the web and about to start sharing data with citizens.

Knight Community Information Challenge: Get help with your application

News for Digital Innovators

Wed, May 1, 2013 | 2:56 p.m. PDT

by Amy Gahran

Today applications opened for the Knight Community Information Challenge. Do you have open government ideas that might help people engage more effectively with their local government? Knight is offering a free webinar this week to answer your questions about this competition.

Civic Engagement in the digital age: Pew report

Community News Leadership 3.0

Wed, May 1, 2013 | 2:29 p.m. PDT

by Amy Gahran

To engage with civic issues or their government, people have always needed to get information and talk to people. Access to the internet, social media, and mobile communications has changed civic engagement somewhat -- but it's not really helping to bring in new voices or amplify marginalized ones. Well-educated, well-off people still tend to do it more, according to a new Pew report.

How the Chicago Community Trust and OpenGov Chicago are creating a new type of accountability journalism

Community News Leadership 3.0

Wed, April 24, 2013 | 10:00 p.m. PDT

by Sally Duros

Emerging from the platform of the Chicago Community Trust, OpenGovChi holds promise for creating a new type of accountability journalism that quantifies problems and identifies fixes in response to the needs of the public.

Knight Community Information Challenge: Applications open May 1

News for Digital Innovators

Wed, April 24, 2013 | 1:16 p.m. PDT

by Amy Gahran

Open government is the focus of this year's Knight Community Information Challenge. On May 1, the day applications open, the Knight Foundation is holding a webinar where you can get answers to your questions about this contest, which provides matching grants in partnership with community foundations to fund community information and engagement projects.

National Day of Civic Hacking: Opportunity to grow your local tech network

Community News Leadership 3.0

Tue, April 23, 2013 | 4:22 p.m. PDT

by Amy Gahran

Network-building is central to the work of community foundations and organizations -- yet often they lack strong personal ties with programmers and others in their local tech community. A nationwide event in June offers a perfect opportunity to meet and assist civic-minded techies you might want to draw into your network.

ISOJ 2013: Follow the action live Fri-Sat

News for Digital Innovators

Wed, April 17, 2013 | 1:55 p.m. PDT

by Amy Gahran

The 14th International Symposium on Online Journalism will be held Apr. 19-20 at the University of Texas-Austin. It's sold out, but you'll be able to follow the action online.

Knight grant helps Texas Tribune hone, teach nonprofit news sustainability

News for Digital Innovators

Tue, April 16, 2013 | 5:08 p.m. PDT

by Amy Gahran

A new $1.5 million Knight Foundation grant will help the Texas Tribune navigate its own path to sustainability -- and show other nonprofit news sites how they can get there, too.