Winners Announced in First New Media Women Entrepreneurs Competition
[2008-7-16]
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Three entrepreneurial news ideas—a public storytelling project, a networking site for Puget Sound’s military community, and a news site for and by Latinas—won $10,000 in a competition that forecast the kinds of fresh and intriguing ideas women have for the future of news.
The three ideas, proposed by four women affiliated with traditional news organizations, were selected from 190 proposals received in only nine weeks as part of the McCormick Foundation New Media Women Entrepreneurs initiative. “These ideas were sharp and doable; the women were extremely accomplished; and their confidence level was inspiring,” said Jan Schaffer, director of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University, which administers the program. “All the proposals had an unrelenting focus on social responsibility, advancing knowledge, and building capacity in communities. Many more of these ideas deserve to be supported.”
The McCormick Foundation funds the New Media Women Entrepreneurs initiative. “Recognizing and rewarding women entrepreneurs in digital media reflects the foundation's deep commitment to journalistic innovation,” said Clark Bell, the foundation’s journalism program director.
Each project will receive $10,000 to launch within a year and project leaders will blog about their experience at www.newmediawomen.org. The winners are:
• Echo, a public art and civic journalism project, will produce and collect stories tied to physical locations throughout Atlanta. Signs with Echo phone number and location ID will invite pedestrians and cyclists to access a story about that site via cell phone, podcast, or the Web. “When a space becomes inscribed with cultural or personal stories, it transforms into a place of significance,” said project leaders Lila King and Karyn Lu, movers behind CNN’s user-generated site iReport.com. They said they were eager “to evolve the digital medium in a way that … Makes our city a more transformative, beautiful, and connected place for everyone who lives here.”
Three entrepreneurial news ideas—a public storytelling project, a networking site for Puget Sound’s military community, and a news site for and by Latinas—won $10,000 in a competition that forecast the kinds of fresh and intriguing ideas women have for the future of news.
The three ideas, proposed by four women affiliated with traditional news organizations, were selected from 190 proposals received in only nine weeks as part of the McCormick Foundation New Media Women Entrepreneurs initiative. “These ideas were sharp and doable; the women were extremely accomplished; and their confidence level was inspiring,” said Jan Schaffer, director of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at American University, which administers the program. “All the proposals had an unrelenting focus on social responsibility, advancing knowledge, and building capacity in communities. Many more of these ideas deserve to be supported.”
The McCormick Foundation funds the New Media Women Entrepreneurs initiative. “Recognizing and rewarding women entrepreneurs in digital media reflects the foundation's deep commitment to journalistic innovation,” said Clark Bell, the foundation’s journalism program director.
Each project will receive $10,000 to launch within a year and project leaders will blog about their experience at www.newmediawomen.org. The winners are:
• Echo, a public art and civic journalism project, will produce and collect stories tied to physical locations throughout Atlanta. Signs with Echo phone number and location ID will invite pedestrians and cyclists to access a story about that site via cell phone, podcast, or the Web. “When a space becomes inscribed with cultural or personal stories, it transforms into a place of significance,” said project leaders Lila King and Karyn Lu, movers behind CNN’s user-generated site iReport.com. They said they were eager “to evolve the digital medium in a way that … Makes our city a more transformative, beautiful, and connected place for everyone who lives here.”
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