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    NPR Launches Online Local Journalism Project With $3M In Grants
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    "We are grateful to CPB and Knight Foundation for partnering with us to realize this potential and we thank them for supporting our mission to create a more informed public." "The continued vitality of public media in the face of rapid technological and social change demands a variety of responses from CPB" said Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Full Article at mediabistro.com
    The continued vitality of public media in the face of rapid technological and social change demands a variety of responses from CPB
    SOURCE: mediabistro.com 1 month ago
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NPR Launches Online Local Journalism Project With $3M In Grants
  1. The contraction of professional journalism poses a direct threat to our democracy as access to independent, in-depth, news and information is diminished.
    SOURCE: mediabistro.com 1 month ago
  2. The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
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  3. Stations will feed their work into NPR's content management system, where the entire group of participants will have easy access to each others' work to inform, enrich and add context as they create and present their stories
    SOURCE: mediabistro.com 1 month ago
  4. As the country's largest not-for-profit news organization and one that is gaining audience and innovating, NPR and its member stations are uniquely positioned to respond to the crisis in American journalism
    SOURCE: mediabistro.com 1 month ago
  5. This web-first, multi-platform news approach is one of several innovative investments that CPB plans to make to strengthen local and network journalism.
    SOURCE: mediabistro.com 1 month ago
  6. The opportunity here is two-fold. First, to beef up coverage of critical issues at the local level, and, second, to begin to establish an online network that can transform itself into a news powerhouse of unparalleled depth and quality ... We are grateful to CPB and Knight Foundation for partnering with...
    SOURCE: mediabistro.com 1 month ago

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