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Word from Stanford: I'm a finalist for the Knight Fellowship. The actual class of 2010-2011 isn't named until May. More suspense!

CPB: Launches New Local Journalism Initiative

Washington, DC -- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today announced funding for a major journalism initiative that will increase original local reporting capacity in seven regions around the country, and a planning project to develop an open information architecture to harness the collective power of the public media network.

via www.cpb.org

Finally! Those of us who took at run at this project were given a very narrow window of time to respond last summer. Only three weeks, as I recall. Boy did we hurry! We thought we were going to launch something by last October!

In my case, the LJC proposal I wrote for a consortium of Northeast stations was deemed "too big" (according to a CPB official).

Still, I'm a big fan of the effort and expect to be working with "The Plains" group on its training plan.

Congrats to all the projects! And thank you, CPB! This is a great experiment that will increase our system capacity by 50 journalists in one plunge.

Finally!

PRNDI: Help Define "Journalist" for the 2010 News Census

Help PRNDI Define "journalist" for the sake of the 2010 News CensusAs we grow public media on many platforms, we introduce more job descriptions into the workplace. For the sake of a system-wide census, what definition should we use for who is or isn't a "journalist?" Posted by: mmarcotteFlag discussion as inappropriate

via action.publicbroadcasting.net

I'm working with PRNDI to submit a CPB grant that would take a headcount of journalists in public broadcasting. Who should be counted? Sounds simple until you think about it. What about that program director who hosts Morning Edition? What about that web producer who adds photos and converts the radio script to text? What about unpaid volunteers who help report?